Family Legal Fight to Uncover Old Opera Ceiling

Arnaud Carayon has hired a lawyer to restore and uncover his ancestor Jules-Eugène Lenepveu’s 1800s ceiling in Paris’s Palais Garnier opera house, hidden like wallpaper since 1962 under Marc Chagall’s 24 paintings ordered by André Malraux. Carayon, Lenepveu’s descendant and head of the Friends of Lenepveu Society, says he has pushed for three years, writing twice to President Emmanuel Macron.