La Comédie de Béthune by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

BÉTHUNE – A Northern French mining town of less than 20,000 inhabitants became the unlikely site of a national theatre just over twenty years ago, due in large part to a charismatic mayor’s intercessions with the Ministry of Culture and Communicat
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