In the lower-class, mixed, crime-ridden neighborhood of East Fort Worth, Texas where I lived before returning to France, the library was always packed — most of all with young people, often bilingual. email artsvoyager@gmail.com for info on accessing full story & 11 images), JOURNALISTE/TRADUCTEUR AMÉRICAIN, DJ, GALERISTE, ANIMATEUR DES ATELIERS THÉÂTRALES POUR LES ENFANTS ET GARDE CHAT EXPÉRIMENTÉ, CHERCHE ÉCHANGE DE BONS PROCÉDÉS (LOGEMENT CONTRE TRAVAIL) OU STUDIO PETITE LOYER (OU MÉLANGE DES DEUX) EN RÉGION PARISIENNE, Victor Hugo versus the Comédie-Française (Part 2): The Appeal. The knee-jerk response to the real and present threat of terrorism in some quarters — in the U.S. as in France — has been to in effect cede to the terrorists by being terrorized, putting up walls, ostracizing the Other, and erecting a citadel we like to think will be impregnable but that risks to swallow us in solipsism. (I can’t find this word in any of my French dictionaries, so it must be a recent — Franglaise? ), … Or, I’d argue, multiple countries — like Nyssen, an immigrant whose publishing house excels in promoting authors in translation; thus eminently French and open to the world. By logging in, you confirm acceptance of our POLITICO Privacy Policy. Setting aside that this allegation may be the product of a ‘mauvaise langue,’ I’d respond: “Et alors?” Admitting the possibility — if the story is true — of a latent sexism in the idea that Culture is a ‘woman’s ministry’ and thus only fit for dames and pansies, isn’t this an improvement on the procedure followed by François Hollande, who seemed to choose his cultural ministers not for their cultural currency but on the bit-coin of party loyalty? Hubert Nyssen war der Literatur seit seiner Kindheit verpflichtet. Latest news, analysis and comment on elections in Europe and beyond. D’être capable de faire sauter la terre ; et de rassembler l’art depuis la préhistoire.”, By Paul Ben-Itzak ), With Emmanuel Macron, elected president May 7 with a 66 percent majority, increasing library hours is not just a pat solution. (Following the suicide of her son, Nyssen also founded a school focused on listening to children, the School of Possibilities. Have something that needs translating? **From “Madeline,” copyright Ludwig Bemelmans, 1939, renewed Madeleine Bemelmans and Barbara Bemelmans Marciano, 1967. ), So you can imagine my chagrin in reading, just before the recent presidential election, New York Times columnist Roger Simon’s “France at the End of Days,” a one-sided portrait of a supposedly crepuscular France in which the Neo-Xenophobes were battling the Neo-Liberals for control of the wheel that would determine the country’s direction for the next five years. In-depth reporting, data and actionable intelligence for policy professionals – all in one place. Madeline just said, ‘Pooh-Pooh.'”**. And the understandable and completely justifiable responses of military Defense and verbal Sanction have been under-accompanied by strategies to treat the problem at its roots. (In some cases, more even than the French themselves. D’être capable de faire sauter la terre ; et de rassembler l’art depuis la préhistoire.”, By Paul Ben-Itzak And yet, around the world, library hours have been eviscerated and libraries shuttered for the past 30 years. ), … Or, I’d argue, multiple countries — like Nyssen, an immigrant whose publishing house excels in promoting authors in translation; thus eminently French and open to the world. 6/8/20, 5:05 PM CEST. Copyright 2017 Paul Ben-Itzak. Hollande didn’t do much better with the cultural agenda, all three of his cultural ministers qualified more by their allegiance to the Socialist party than their cultural accomplishments. (Nowhere in the article was it explained that if the National Front had doubled its support since the last election in 2012, it wasn’t because an additional 17 percent of Frenchmen and women suddenly woke up racists, but because a)like my retired neighbors here in the Southwest of France, they’re weary of making their grocery purchases every week based on what’s on sale, and b) the end run by leaders of both the principal parties around the popular rejection of the European Constitution in 2005 with a Treaty of Lisbon not subject to popular confirmation, capped by Francois Hollande’s running in 2012 as “the enemy of Finance” only to (in the view of some; I’ll take the Fifth) embrace Capitalism after he was elected president left many voters disillusioned with the establishment parties.). Not so anecdotally, Arles itself is best-known outside France for having welcomed Vincent Van Gogh, yet another foreigner who expanded French culture even as it assimilated him. In analyzing the cabinet named yesterday by Macron and his new prime minister, Edouard Philippe (also a book maven, having launched book-mobiles around his coastal city of Le Havre), most of the media I audit has been commenting that even if half the 22 members are women, only one, the new minister of armies, was accorded a ‘regalian’ ministry. Never mind that the most ‘regalian’ of French presidents in the 60 years of the Fifth Republic, the man still more likely to be referred to by the French as “the General” than “the president,” Charles De Gaulle, appointed as his first and long-time minister of culture André Malraux, himself a Nobel laureate. Copyright 2017 Paul Ben-Itzak. The long-time director of Arles-based Actes Sud, founded by her father in 1978 and since grown to one of France’s most respected publishing houses, Nyssen’s authors include Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, and Kamel Daoud. (These days, also not so anecdotally, the Provencial city is home to ATLAS, the country’s leading association for literary translation.). This in France, the cradle of literature. (In the Anglophone culture, this is what we call Penny-wise, pound-foolish. POLITICO’s weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the U.K. Log in to access content and manage your profile. I am not the only American who has been drawn to this heritage. In analyzing the cabinet named yesterday by Macron and his new prime minister, Edouard Philippe (also a book maven, having launched book-mobiles around his coastal city of Le Havre), most of the media I audit has been commenting that even if half the 22 members are women, only one, the new minister of armies, was accorded a ‘regalian’ ministry. Macron’s eventual choice, Françoise Nyssen, definitely has cultural credibility. As did even Nicolas Sarkozy, appointing to the post Mitterand’s nephew Frederick, whose outsized erudition would certainly qualify him as ‘regalian.’. Copyright André Malraux. The long-time director of Arles-based Actes Sud , founded by her father in 1978 and since grown to one of France’s most respected publishing houses, Nyssen’s authors include Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, and Kamel Daoud. Together with Macron’s campaign promise to increase library hours at night and on the week-ends, and Philippe’s record as mayor of Havre in sending bookmobiles around the coastal city, the appointment of Nyssen, who also founded a school focused on listening to the child after the suicide of one of her own children, augurs well. As have so many of us (assimilated French culture), even those who rarely set foot in France. Hubert Nyssen (* 11. Together with Macron’s campaign promise to increase library hours at night and on the week-ends, and Philippe’s record as mayor of Havre in sending bookmobiles around the coastal city, the appointment of Nyssen, who also founded a school focused on listening to the child after the suicide of one of her own children, augurs well. Brussels demo attendees should now adopt ‘barrier gestures,’ says adviser. And yet for France, it doesn’t have to be this way. PARIS — From a minister of culture during the precedent administration who famously admitted that she didn’t have time to read books, newly inaugurated president Emmanuel Macron and his freshly-minted prime minister Edouard Philippe, both famous readers and promoters of literature, today took a major step in recuperating the image of a portfolio for years honored by Andre Malraux by naming as the country’s minister of culture and communications Françoise Nyssen, long-time director of Arles-based Actes Sud, one of the crème de la crème of French publishers. (Also along the lines of better immunizing the country’s infants, Macron has pledged to cut class size in difficult neighborhoods in half, to 12 students.). EXCLUSIV Françoise Nyssen, noul ministru al Culturii: “Obligaţi să sacrificăm esenţialul pentru urgenţă, sfârşim prin a uita urgenţa esenţialului” O mulţime de elogii a salutat numirea, de către Emmanuel Macron şi Guvernul Édouard Phillipe, a Directoarei Editurii Actes Sud , Françoise Nyssen , … Take Ludwig Bemelmans, the author of the “Madeline” series of children’s adventures, whose courageous heroine exemplified the Gallic strategy of responding to terror with words during a visit to the Paris zoo: “To the tiger in the zoo Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers on German politics.

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