The mosaic representing singer Georges Brassens at the Porte des Lilas metro station was destroyed

Therefore,

Mosaic representing singer georges brassens:

The Mosaiste Michel L’Huillier had produced the mosaic. Moreover, in the late 1980s, to pay tribute to the song “Les Lilas” by Georges Brassens. However,

France Télévisions – Culture writing

Published the 08/08/2025 18:46

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Mosaic of Georges Brassens on the walls of the Station Porte des Lilas, January 22, 2025. (STEPHANE GEUFROI / MAXPPP)

Three mosaics were destroyed. at the end of July at the Porte des Lilas station between Paris and Les Lilas (Seine-Saint-Denis), as part of work sealing, announced by RATP at the start of the year. One of them represented the face of singer Georges Brassens. The artist Michel L’Huillier had carried out it in the late 1980s in homage mosaic representing singer georges brassens to the famous song The lilacs.

The heritage safeguarding associations had launched a petition a year ago. collecting 10,000 signatures, to ask the RATP to preserve these works, in vain.During the holidays, they took advantage of it, they broke everything “, rebels Michel L’Huillier with the Parisian. The collective of associations had however suggested solutions to the Parisian transport network to preserve the works. while carrying out the necessary work.

The RATP had called on a design office to assess the possibility of keeping mosaics. not and the conclusion was final: Despite all these efforts, the conservation of the frescoes has proven incompatible with the requirements to preserve the sustainability of the works and the continuity of the transport offer “said the Régie des Transport, still at Parisian.

But the RATP wishes. despite everything, to maintain the singer’s memory with the pipe, originally from Sète, within the station. mosaic representing singer georges brassens She therefore proposed to Michel L’Huillier to carry out a new work “to a visible location of travelers. protected the risk of infiltration”indicates the newspaper. The mosaicist has not yet given an answer.

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Mosaic representing singer georges brassens

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