Tag: French language
The love language of Julie Neveux
“If each love story is unique, all are lived, written or sung with the same words.” Linguist and expert in the expression of our emotions, Julie Neveux analyzes and deciphers…
Alain Françon facing Beckett: in search of the essential
Vladimir and Estragon have been waiting for Godot for 70 years, and so have we… But who is Godot? Godot, for Alain Françon, that’s the essential, that’s the right word,…
De Gaulle, Joan of Arc or François I: how to reconstruct the great voices of the past?
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Thanks to artificial intelligence, journalists from Le Monde and IRCAM researchers reconstructed General de Gaulle’s June 18 speech, of which no recording existed. How do…
Music: Once upon a time Lynda Lemay
The Quebec singer continues her titanic project: to release 11 albums of 11 songs in 1,111 days! The title of this musical adventure which started in 2020: once upon a…
“And by the power of a word”: in the footsteps of the poem “Liberté” by Paul Eluard
Xavier Donzelli tells us the true story of a poem that brings hope during the Occupation. A novel in which a poem is the hero! Xavier Donzelli conducted the investigation…
“Boniments” by F. Bégaudeau: our language, monopolized by merchants?
“The language of capitalism must not be unmasked, it must be dry-screened for precision. » From liberalism to algorithms, passing through burnout, transclasses and the scooter, François Bégaudeau delivers, through…
Theater – Olivia Rosenthal and Mathieu Touzé are not here to disappear
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “I want to keep the indeterminacy of the voices which, in Olivia Rosenthal’s text, echoes the loss of identity. The body of the actor will…
What do migrations do to languages, and languages to migrations?
“It is in languages that everything is played out: exile, asylum, encounters, culture…“. With anthropologists, sociologists and sociolinguists, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky conducted the survey for four years in migrant reception centers…
Gérald Garutti manifesto for the arts of the word
” The embodiment of meaning is the heart of speech “. It is through theatre, through its activity of transmission as well, that Gérald Garutti examines the role of speech.…
Literature: Colette – Portrait of an author by an author
January 28 will mark the 150th anniversary of Colette’s birth. Writer, music hall star, journalist, first woman to receive a national funeral in France, whose sulphurous love life has caused…