Baillet

“The enemy for any kind of imaging, especially brain imaging, is movement,” says Sylvain Baillet, director of the MEG program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

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Legally, the sculptures belong to the city of Baillet.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009

All traces of the Soviet sculptures were lost -- until 2004, when Mr. Gentili was dispatched to Baillet by France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Searches for what he thought would be a routine real-estate inspection.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009

Denis Glicksman/INRAP Mr. Gentili, left, was dispatched to Baillet to conduct preventive archeological searches -- a common procedure to apply for construction permits around old buildings in France.

Unearthing a Communist Past 2009

The number of guests at the Baillet château dwindled and the CGT sold it in 1972.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009

Sylvie Gonzalez, curator of the municipal museum in Saint-Denis, a Communist-led city between Paris and Baillet, says she would be happy to provide a final home for the sculptures, but says Stalin-era art is very politically sensitive in France.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009

Baillet observed, "We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire."

Michael Sigman: Information Deprivation 2009

In Baillet, Mr. Gentili is trying to understand why the broken sculptures were buried so carefully in the ice chest.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009

His father, a steelworker who had been affiliated with the union, told him about holidays he had taken at Baillet before Mr. Gentili was born.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009

The CGT proudly placed the sculptures in front of a 17th-century château, in the village of Baillet, that the union had just bought and transformed into a holiday resort for workers.

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be as France Unearths Soviet Statues 2009