Tag: French language
Benjamin Epps: The great disillusion for inspiration
“I have voices in my head telling me to hold on, to live” – Excerpt from the title Live by Benjamin Epps. The young rapper with a clear voice, a…
Raphaël Haddad: inclusive writing for all!
” The evidence is that the world is mixed and that it must be accounted for in the language “. Inclusive writing is regularly controversial and its use raises many…
Garance Meillon: resisting the language of the enemy
“Love stories are lived a lot through words. You have to choose them carefully » In his novel The language of the enemy, which looks like a modern fable, Garance…
Laura Alcoba, the memory of water in Argentina
/ Podcasts / Literature without borders Born in Argentina where she lived until the age of 10, Laura Alcoba had to go into exile in France with her family for…
Yvette Balana and Antoinette Tidjani Alou at the Geneva Book Fair
Meeting with two authors whose novels resonate around a theme, that of departure and return. How to leave? And then how do you get home? How to come back, once…
Save regional languages with Michel Feltin-Palas
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”Max Weinreinch, linguist. It is with this edifying quote that Michel Feltin-Palas’ book opens, a…
Tahar Ben Jelloun: his Morocco is written in French
In this Francophonie week, the Franco-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recounts his relationship to the French language, and presents his new novel, Casablanca lovers. “It is with the French language…
A history of the Francophonie with Thi Hoai Trang Phan-Labays
/ Podcasts / In person(s) March 20 is International Francophonie Day. The opportunity to return to the birth of the term “Francophonie”, its evolution over fifty years, and to question…
In Quebec, immigrants learn to speak French in intensive courses
The only French-speaking province in Canada, Quebec welcomes tens of thousands of migrants each year, often non-French speakers. To preserve its language, the province has set up an extensive francization…
in Villers-Cotterêts where the marriage of the French State and its language took place
Rehabilitated with millions, the royal castle of Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) will reopen its doors in June. It now becomes the Cité internationale de la langue française in reference to the ordinance…