Former French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand, who was a high-profile and sometimes controversial figure on France's cultural scene, died on Thursday at the age of 76, his family announced.

The French prefer glass. François Mitterrand gave the Louvre its distinctive glass pyramid; Georges Pompidou built an art center with an unusual glass-tube escalator crawling up its outside ...

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