Tag: French language
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…
The sounds to say it – Tic-tac
Presentation of the series: The sounds to say it Beyond their meaning, the sound of the words evokes what they convey. If poetry has been played since the dawn of…
Davina Ittoo, the voice of women in Mauritius
/ Podcasts / Literature without borders Davina Ittoo is an author of poetry, novels and short stories. She lives and teaches in Mauritius where she is a lecturer at the…
Crossing borders with poets Sophie Nauleau and Tanella Boni
” There terra incognita inside me had sacralized space and distances to the detriment of time and events. The abscissa and the ordinate of the days have never been, I…
The Poetic Paradise of Gustave Roud by Claire Jaquier
“How beautiful this morning, the harvest beginning! Barely taken, the gray and pink road | between rows of shining pear trees is peopled with mowers. One sings, the other whistles,…
Jacques Weber shares fifty years of emotions
” I spoke to him in a low voice, under his closed eyes I was sure that the forces of the spirit remained attentive: “I love you so much.” I…
The nouchi at the Palace of Belles-Lettres with Henri Michel Yéré
“My hoba hoba pierces walls! » – « I mean that my word demolishes the walls! » Henri-Michel Yéré’s new poetic collection is written in nouchi – a living language…
Lydie Salvayre questions the future of literature
“What will become of literature if it becomes globalized, therefore simplified to be accessible to all, to have the language of everyone, speaking the globish, by erasing all singularity? I…
Bringing anonymous people back to life with Blandine Savetier
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “I immediately liked A wildcat step, because Marie NDiaye addresses – with great finesse – the question of racism, that of difference and the black…