DISAPPEARANCE – The historian died on Sunday at the age of 91. Portrait of a disciple of Raymond Aron who built a considerable and unclassifiable body of work. “II was born rue Guynemer, at the corner of rue de Vaugirard, in front of the Luxembourg garden, on the first floor, in the evening. My mother … Read more
Alain Cuny’s only feature film, a singular work adapted from the French writer’s famous fable, is coming out in theaters thirty years later. The Annunciation made to Mary is the story of a thwarted love in the 15th century. Violaine, betrothed to Jacques, puts her marriage in danger by kissing the leper Pierre out of … Read more
As we celebrate Alain Robbe-Grillet’s centenary this year, Benoît Peeters is releasing two books about him: Robbe-Grillet. The Adventure of the New Novel and Reinventing the novel. Writer and critic, scriptwriter of comic strips and soon to be invited to the Collège de France, where he has been elected to the chair of artistic creation, … Read more
We proposed to personalities from all walks of life – politicians, intellectuals, historians… – and ideological sensitivities, to define the word “republican”, emptied of its meaning by years of political language, serving to describe the perimeter of acceptability without never wonder what it covers. To discover the presentation of this series. *** Republic, republican, republicans… … Read more