Museums in France

French presidents always found an art museum. It's something like their version of presidential libraries as far as I can tell -- a legacy for the ages. In fact, can we start doing this in the states? I would way prefer a new art museum every 4-8 years than a museum to the greatness of a former president in some backwater.

Anyway, Sarkozy has decided art ain't his thing. French History, however, seems to be.

Le Monde:

Ce musée, a-t-il précisé, aura vocation à "questionner notre histoire de France dans son ensemble". Insistant sur sa "cohérence", le chef de l'Etat a souhaité que celle-ci ne soit plus abordée "par petits bouts", à travers ses "pages glorieuses" ou ses "pages un peu plus délicates", mais comme "un tout".

Translation:
This museum, [Sarkozy] specified, will have the mission "to question our French history in its entirety." Insisting on its "coherence", the Head of State wished that this no longer be approached in "small increments" , through its "glorious pages" or its "more delicate pages" , but as "a whole."

Now, my French may be off here, but I have no fucking clue what he is talking about. Then again, he's French, and they're silly-talkers.