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REVEALED: Renaissance nudes painting sparks crisis at french school - The Real Truth

Teachers said they were exercising their right to stay away from classrooms over the "particularly difficult situation" at a high school in western Paris. © AFP - Luis Robayo

Teachers at a middle school in Issou, west of Paris, refused to work on Monday as the establishment grappled with a crisis sparked by the showing in class of a painting by a Renaissance master containing several nude women.

On Thursday, "during a French class, a colleague showed a 17th-century painting that showed naked women", said Sophie Venetitay, secretary general of the Snes-FSU secondary school teachers' union.

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