Tag: In person(s)
In his novel “Connemara”, Nicolas Mathieu offers a teenage parenthesis to his characters
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for Their children after themthe writer Nicolas Mathieu tells us about his new novel, Connemarapublished by Actes Sud. Taking place in the east…
Fête de la Musique – The Corsican group I Muvrini for their new album “Piu Forti”
I Muvrini, the Corsican music group formed in the late 70s by the Bernardini brothers is back with this new album in which they tackle a theme dear to them:…
Is classifying ways of speaking classifying people?
Is there a linguistic norm, a good way to speak? Why are certain ways of speaking considered faults? Advertising And how are perceived people who do not express themselves, according…
“The song of the living”: repairing the wounds of exile
Crossing deserts or seas, imprisonment, torture, time in prison… the majority of the exiled people who came suffered from serious psychological trauma. Since 2016, the Limbo association has organized stays…
Theater: “The Fortresses”, by Gurshad Shaheman, three women’s journeys
The Franco-Iranian director invites his mother and two aunts on stage. All three were born in the early 1960s in the heart of Iranian Azerbaijan, and experienced the 1979 revolution,…
Music: Bantunani, for a happy and mixed Francophonie
For several years, the Afrofunk artist Bantunani has been working for the Francophonie in his country, the DRC, via the program “la Lettre Française”. His latest album “Cosmogony” mixes several…
Please ! Politeness over words and history
“Too polite to be honest” “Be polite if you’re not pretty”. No one is indifferent to politeness and its sometimes bombastic formulas! How to define it today? How has it…
François Jost: but what are you “memes” talking about?
You probably know the ” memes ! You know, these animated, transformed, diverted images that flood the web to make us laugh, criticize, denounce, make us think. Some have become…
“At the four corners of the word” with Jérôme Rouger, Valentine Bonomo and Captain Alexandre
Second program at the Cité du mot, with three guests of the “Aux quatre coins du mot” festival, who explore the French language, each in their own way, at Charité-sur-Loire,…
These surprising etymologies of the French language with Françoise Nore!
That the Latin verb finder gave rise to words like slit, fissure or… buttock? That “pastis” comes from the Greek? What are the origins, evolutions, disappearances and reappearances of these…