The New French Law on Restitution France now stands at the edge of an unfamiliar, but long-awaited, horizon. In July 2025, Culture Minister Rachida Dati introduced a draft law that would, if passed, make it far easier for looted or misappropriated cultural artifacts to be returned to their countries of origin. For the first time, restitution would not require the exhausting ritual of special parliamentary legislation for each object. Instead, a decree approved by the […]