Tag: French language
Chékéba Hachémi, the insolent girl from Kabul: an ode to the resistance of Afghan women
In 1986, Chékéba, eleven years old, crossed alone with a smuggler the mountains that separate Afghanistan from Pakistan. The Soviet occupation and the Islamist guerrillas are destabilizing the country. Exiled…
Theatre: Jean-Michel Ribes, 20 years at the Rond-Point!
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Playwright, director and filmmaker, Jean-Michel Ribes will have spent 20 years at the head of the Rond-Point. Appointed in January 2002, he will leave this…
“Another pair of sleeves” with Bérangère Baucher
/ Podcasts / Flea in the ear Using French expressions is one thing, but explaining their origin, “it’s a pair of sleeves”! This is the expression that Lucie Bouteloup dissects…
Theater: “Portrait Désir”, the new creation of Dieudonné Niangouna
/ Podcasts / In person(s) ” My grandmother used to tell stories to keep you an elephant awake for eight days writes Dieudonné Niangouna in presentation of this new theatrical…
Bilingual glossaries for foreigners hosted in France
On the occasion of Integration Week last October, the Ministry of Culture launched the bilingual glossaries of the French administration. Published in collaboration with the Houses of Wisdom association, these…
Music: Burkinabe rapper Joey le Soldat: words as weapons
Joey le Soldat, that is his name, is in the news with his fourth album Back to the roots… 14 titles to take the world to heart and say what…
Whistle: Football words on the pitch!
/ Podcasts / In person(s) As the World Cup has just started in Qatar, we are interested in football words! Everyone – or almost – knows the “ penalty “,…
Centenary of Marcel Proust: fictitious correspondence with Félicien Marbœuf
If Félicien Marboeuf is totally unknown, he is one of the greatest writers who has never published anything. In this correspondence, we discover a man who was one of the…
Theater: Nasser Djemai and “The Guardians”: fable on the fourth age
These guardians are fairies and witches. A fantastic odyssey on the border of madness. Old age, they play with it, they laugh at it, they assume it. They are one…
Literature: Shumona Sinha, French, “her vital language”
Shumona Sinha, born in Calcutta, learned French at the age of twenty-two. Since then, she considers this language as her “vital language”, the one that freed her, saved her, brought…