Tag: Culture
when words speak of their times – L’Express
It’s crazy how you just have to pronounce a word to return to a past decade, with its clothing fashions, its music, its emblematic films… Say “yéyé”, for example, and…
The MFP 2024 radio journalism prize: the reports in the running
The French-speaking public media (MFP) radio journalism prize recognizes each year the best treatment of a current event, the best investigation or the best report on a social event presented…
the recipes for this literary phenomenon – L’Express
There are phenomena that escape you at first glance. We saw this summer, with a distracted eye, that The Housekeeper (I read) by a certain Freida McFadden triumphed in the…
François Bégaudeau, the free electron of the radical left – L’Express
If Robert Louis Stevenson looked at the strange case of François Bégaudeau, he would distinguish two people: the one who speaks and the one who writes. On YouTube, there are…
Artist Carla Emmink incorporates childhood struggles into paintings: ‘I couldn’t talk about it’
Her parents allow her to go to art school. After graduating, Carla gets a job as an illustrator Side by Sidea magazine for lesbian women. Even though she works for…
From China to the United States, four books to understand everything about current geopolitics – L’Express
A madman in the White House A madman in the White House? Yes, but it’s not what you think. President from 1913 to 1921 – during the First World War,…
the true face of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac or George Sand revealed – L’Express
In the 19th century, we didn’t bother with political correctness, if we are to believe this bad joke from Balzac, unimaginable today: “I worked like a Negro, or like a…
Artist brings two incompatible worlds together in her work
Her parents allow her to go to art school. After graduating, Carla gets a job as an illustrator Side by Sidea magazine for lesbian women. Even though she works for…
The French bistro soon to be classified by UNESCO? “It’s as important as the Louvre or Notre-Dame” – L’Express
Tavern, gargote, harbor, boui-boui, estaminet, limonadier… The French language is full of variations to designate the French bistro. “A place where every French person, in all social classes, has a…
At Mac Val in Vitry-sur-Seine, artists put to the test of the news story – L’Express
“A hypothesis in 26 letters, 5 equations and no answer”: its subtitle warns us straight away, the exhibition presented at the Mac Val in Vitry-sur-Seine resolves nothing. That’s good since…