Art Of The Day Weekly
#451 - from 1 December 2016 to 7 December 2016
Presumed guilty
PARIS – They were witches, murdered with poison, performed abortions, committed arson or were sold to the German enemy. In brief, they were all guilty. It was not good to be suspected of committing these crimes or to be the target of public rumours: lynching was not an American specialty. The exhibition is based on the stripping of a vast number of documents: 320 interrogations over six centuries. At the Archives nationales, from 30 November 2016 to 27 March 2017.