Cultural policies started in the early 1980s contain several sections for reinserting French Fine Arts in the international scene: support for artists, the development of an institutional market, the reform of Fine Arts schools, all with the intention to decentralize. These policies deeply change the ways of recognizing value by giving preference to ‘discursive art’ over ‘works-objects’ in the institutional market. Fine Arts schools echo this change. Alongside local, commercial networks for selling art (networks turned toward private demand and lacking much cultural legitimacy), an institutional network has been set up that is turned toward public demand but whose cultural legitimacy does not ensure that French Fine Arts will find a place on the international scene.