There are fewer and fewer survivors of the concentration camps of World War II. Each new testimonial published could be the last. That of Léon Placek, 89, I was 10 years old in Bergen-Belsen was released on May 5. Any book by concentration camp survivors today could become the last published and extinguish a strong … Read more
“When I grow up, I’ll be a painter. Like Michelangelo. But I don’t say it too loudly. What dad thinks. I know very well.” Translated from Swedish, here The bird in me flies where it wants by Saraj Lundberg. Berta Elisabet Hansson was a Swedish artist. She was in the 1940s and 1950s an expressionist … Read more
Many times we forget it, but humans are, above all, animals. And the best linguistic proof of this is the place that other animals occupy in our speech. Obviously, there are all these expressions, from the time of the pig to the life of the dog, from the ground floor to sticking out the tongue … Read more
In 1513, Machiavelli is a ruined man, denied by all. After so many good and loyal services, we turn our backs on him like dirt. He then retired to the countryside on his property in Sant’Andrea in the Chianti region. It was from the depths of this exile that he began to write his most … Read more
French people aged seven and up are called, until May 18, to indicate their three favorite books as part of a vast operation navigating the renewed interest in reading observed during the first confinement of 2020. Asterix the Gaul, The stranger Where The little Prince ? France Télévisions and the BBC invite the French to … Read more
from the era I alsomany paintings, sculptures and other artistic representations have passed, years after their creation, on the grill of public opinion. “This gallery presents women’s bodies, either as a ‘decorative passive form’ or as a ‘femme fatale’. Let’s challenge this Victorian fantasy!”, could be read in January 2018 at the entrance of the … Read more