When, in 2018, Emmanuel Macron proposed the loan of the Bayeux tapestry to Britain, an army of conservators and experts rose up to explain why the almost-1,000 year old treasure was too fragile to be moved.
Antoine Verney, the chief curator of the Bayeux Museum, said the tapestry that depicted the Norman conquest of England in 1066 was in such a bad state he “couldn’t conceive” of it going anywhere.
