Rayures. Une histoire culturelle. Arts if necessary

if necessary

decorated jar supports from the Byzantine period unearthed during the excavations of the sector of the temple of Ptah in the enclosure of the temple of Amun of Karnak (cf

achieved thanks to a trained army of European officers "surviving the glories of the Napoleonic adventure

at the Jean de La Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry

Rayures. Une histoire culturelle. Arts if necessaryWhat could Saint Joseph and Obelix, the medieval prostitute and the baseball umpire, the Carmelite friars and the bathers of the Belle poque, the sans culottes of the year II and jazz musicians have in common? They wear striped clothing, a sign of their situation on the margins or outside the social order. An ambiguous structure, which does not clearly distinguish figure from background, the stripe has long remained in Europe a mark of exclusion or