Tag: French language
Documentary: “How is your name?”, trip to the France of first names
There are nearly 13,000 first names in France! In 1993, a law liberalized the choice of first names. Advertising What do first names represent today? What do they say about…
The quirks of the French language with Jean-Loup Chiflet
What words are missing in the French language? What is a heterophone homograph? Do you know the paryponoian? Advertising With this unexpected dictionary, the writer and editor Jean-Loup Chiflet tells…
Serge Bilé: Johnny Hallyday and the yéyé wave in the 1960s in Africa
1960: the yéyé wave breaks over Dakar, Abidjan, Bamako, Brazzaville. Like in France. Johnny is also the ” teen idol “, he embodies freedom and certain songs (“ black is…
Fawzia Zouari, thread, blood and words, a look back at a Tunisian childhood
Born in Le Kef in Tunisia, Fawzia Zouari holds a doctorate in French and comparative literature. Based in Paris since 1979, she is a journalist and writer. His work is…
Special program 400 years of Molière! What role internationally?
This year, Molière is 400 years old! An opportunity to celebrate with great fanfare one of the best-known and most performed playwrights. Of Tartuffe to Imaginary illness, what remains of…
Literature: Julia Deck, National Monument, social comedy around a legacy
At the castle, there is the father, old lion of French cinema and national glory. There is the young wife, ex-Miss Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, entirely devoted to her family and to…
Literature: Bruno Lus publishes a fierce novel about suffering adolescence
The college bell rang. Lucie, 13, bites off a piece of the ear of Enzo, a classmate who posted a disgusting montage of her on Facebook. Blood flows. And the…
Theater: “Le Chœur” by Fanny de Chaillé, a body of ten voices
They are 10 on stage to form a single entity, with 10 voices. Ten young actors and actresses, who speak, whisper, are indignant, confide, challenge each other, tell each other…
Diadié Dembélé, advocacy for equality and language sorority in Mali
Diadié Dembélé was born in Kodié, in western Mali. A graduate of the Master of literary creation from the University of Paris VIII, he works as an interpreter in an…
the French Academy wants to seize the Council of State
The French Academy wishes to seize the highest administrative court to have the bilingual identity card repealed, which entered into circulation last August. The French Academy is based on article…