Should we remove the Jefferson statue in Paris?

“What do we want? To reinvent Villa Medici in the United States.” Gaëtan Bruel, the cultural advisor at the French Embassy in New York and the director of brand new Villa Albertine, aware of the challenge. Its model was created in Rome in 1666, at the urging of Louis XIV, to allow French artists to immerse themselves in Italian culture, then on top, and in return for the development of French culture in the world.

the Villa Medici, built on the hill of Pincio, has since been open...