Miss France: Brendan Bègue

Brendan Bègue will pose for the magazine Closer. Probably the first meeting photos voluntary Miss France for the French press people.
For the moment, photos of Valerie Bègue in the press are mostly "scandalogènes." Bare in Focus magazine "Interview", with half-naked in the magazine "Choc", Miss France will be on the front page of the magazine Closer.

Miss France 2008 arrived yesterday in La Reunion, on the flight to 7 H 45, local time. It will take a few days for her role as Miss France, because after all, it's officially that she wears the crown. It thus participated in several local events. Clicanoo, a newspaper Reunion, teaches us that it will participate in a photo session, from Wednesday to Friday, for Closer magazine. But we are reassured, not scandalous photos on the horizon. Just pictures in bathing suits, as it confirms itself: "It is simply a shooting mode with clothes already selected. I did not choose the magazine Closer, but I think it's interesting to do so. We shall see. "

For photos and sexys in Interview Bloopers, Valerie Bègue decided to no longer talk about it: "I make no comment on the case. …. I have already said what I had to say on the subject in December. "

The direction of Closer magazine did not communicate on this topic, n'affirmant nor n'infirmant, information. In this video, the public channel France Oh announcement yet in a news story that is devoted.

Coup de theatre at the Odeon

A little shocked and hurt. "Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, has played all over the emotional map in an improvised press conference yesterday afternoon, in response to about theatre directors of the theatre audience, meeting the morning at the Theatre de l'Odeon. The minister risked a positive assessment of performing arts and his personal action: "It is painful to be so stigmatized when you have a sense of commitment and to bring live performances to a level that is Nowhere in Europe. "
On the same subject


* Coup de theatre at the Odeon
* "I am extremely concerned and disgusted"



The sector accounts for a total of 640 million public, according to figures from the ministry. Either an increase of 40% in ten years. "We can not continue to grow at this pace," said the minister, referring to the "end of a cycle" to meet "all

Kate and Owen met on the filming of "You, Me and Dupree" in 2006

Kate and Owen met on the filming of "You, Me and Dupree" in 2006.

Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson together again? That suggests great "proximity" at the Oscars last week.

According to several sources interviewed by People magazine, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson have decided to restart their love story.

Separated since last summer, the two actors are found last weekend at the Oscars in Los Angeles.

"They were very close and they did not lâchaient" reveals a knowledge of the couple. After the ceremony, Kate and owen reportedly went to a small party at Madonna. "They were touching his arm, they ricanaient, they enjoyed a lot," says another guest.

The love story between Kate Hudson, aged 29 and Owen Wilson, 39-year-old had started on the filming of You, Me and Dupree in 2006. Under the spell of his partner, the actress had left her husband, rocker Chris Robinson, with whom she has a child of three years. Thus begins the relationship between Kate and Owen.

But in June 2007, Kate puts an end to the relationship. Désemparé, Owen Wilson tries to end his life two months later by learning relationship with Kate Dax Shepherd.

Since Owen seems to go much better. The actor has also returned studios

Ndiana Jones and the red carpet in Cannes

Ndiana Jones and the red carpet in Cannes
It's now official: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull will be screened in what is a world premiere at Cannes.
The pre-world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull will be held Sunday, May 18, 2008 at the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Variety reported.

The screening event will take place in the presence of Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett and Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg still working on assembling and the soundtrack of fourth adventures of Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull, directed by Steven Spielberg and performed by Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent, released in theatres on May 21, 2008

Nicole Richie and her baby on the cover of People

Nicole Richie is the one of People magazine with her daughter, Harlow.
People publishes the first photos of Harlow's daughter Nicole Richie, born on January 11 in Los Angeles.

The starlet has been entrusted to the American magazine: "It's as if I do not remember what was my life before birth. It has given a new meaning and a new purpose in my life ".

Like Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani is nursing her daughter. It should therefore monitor his diet: "There's a lot of stuff that I can not eat because it is very sensitive. I eat a little food fades: a soup of chicken, vegetables, fish. I had to banish milk, tomatoes and salad. "

But unlike the singer, the breast of the daughter of Lionel Richie has not quadrupled in volume

Video: A new ad uses Carla Bruni

A new advertising uses Spanish Carla Bruni

And one more. In Spain, Nescafé has not hesitated to use the notoriety of Carla Bruni Sarkozy to promote its products. His tube "Someone said to me" was included in advertising. The spot features several characters who sing each turn a phrase of his single.

Since she is the First Lady of France, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy fancy even more advertisers.
Adnan Ghlalib the announcement on the cover of Star: Britney Spears is pregnant with me. "The answer came quickly: his spokesman just deny everything," Britney is not pregnant. She simply took a bit of weight following the new treatment prescribed by his doctors… "
Michael Jackson will do everything possible to avoid the auction of his Neverland ranch. It would have the funds necessary to carry out its debt of over $ 24 million.
Michael Jackson must pay bagatelle of $ 24 million before March 19. If there is no agreement by then, his Neverland Ranch, a private property of 1400 hectares located in the County of Santa Barbara, California, will be auctioned.

A close to the star told CNN that the king of pop will make every effort to save his ranch. According to this source, it would have sufficient financial resources to clear this debt. The release of his album Thriller anniversary falls to peak.

Michael Jackson is more than $ 24.5 million under a loan secured on this sumptuous ranch he bought in 1988 and transformed into a huge theme park. The ranch is named after the imaginary country of Peter Pan, where children grow up never do

The music does not transform the world, but, perhaps, be able to contribute

The music does not transform the world, but, perhaps, be able to contribute. While the backdrop of nuclear dispute, diplomatic tensions continue to poison the hopes of detente between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the American conductor Lorin Maazel, at the head of the Philharmonic New York has demonstrated, Tuesday, February 26, in the Grand Theatre of Pyongyang.


Chose unthinkable until recently for the first time an American was ringing all its stamps at the very heart of one of the most closed countries in the world. A system-owned, and more importantly to the 'axis of evil', the group of countries honnis by American President George Bush.

On one side of the stage, the American flag on the other, that of North Korea: and had finally decided the protocol, the authorities in Pyongyang who first demanded the presence of their single banner. A simple sentence of American maestro was enough to trigger the breath of emotion, mâtinée pride, which has spread in the impressive gathering of dignitaries also stiff in their costumes that austere reluctant to delight. Prior to interpret An American in Paris, George Gershwin, the chief has made his voice raised these few words: "One day, perhaps, a composer would write in turn" Americans in Pyongyang. "

A sigh of unexpected bursts of mingled voices became widespread among 1500 spectators, men in grey and the few women in traditional long dresses. Visibly moved, a young part of the all-powerful Workers Party of Korea, which since 1948, a reign implacable order in the country, shook his fists as he could so that the pain will make him forget the urge to cry.

Lorin Maazel had just referred. The intensity of the applause that followed his remarks, and then the execution, brilliant, the work of composer reflected in Brooklyn. Something was currently happening in the context of the imposing marble theatre Stalinist architecture.

Emportés by their enthusiasm, most of the dignitaries of the regime, as the universal symbol of the New World Symphony of Antonin Dvorak had left impassive, no longer spared bravos: for the second movement of L'Arlesienne, Georges Bizet First of all, and especially for Arirang, which closed the evening. This theme traditional, very popular throughout the Korean Peninsula, has caused a disorder manifests. Not just in the room.

Few familiar with the protocols of the Western classical music and his rule reminders, the public good to subside believed at the time of the release of Lorin Maazel and Glen Dicterow, the concertmaster of the oldest American orchestra, which was founded in 1842. While some musicians were beginning to leave their desks, the orchestra found itself in a sort of unprecedented chaos when the repeated applause at the reappearance of the head. Many spectators up to shake their hands frantically in the direction of the scene.

"If representatives from other cultures with which we are currently experiencing tensions have a desire to get to know, so much the better. Worth accept it. It is a real challenge, confided shortly before the concert Lorin Maazel. In the arena of culture - I am a musician, not a politician - I am very conscious of the importance of relations between peoples. "

The invitation to come and play in Pyongyang arrived at the New York Philharmonic by fax in August 2007 in the form of a letter from the Ministry of Culture of the DPRK. She was immediately authenticated by the U.S. State Department, which provided advice and assistance on the terms of negotiation. Things picked up in October, after the visit to Pyongyang officials of the orchestra and the State Department.

As reported by the New York Times in its issue of December 10, the acceptance of the Philharmonic to play in North Korea was also subject to several conditions: the presence of foreign journalists, a television and radio broadcast national order not to limit Event to one privileged minority, acoustical adjustments, if necessary, in the theater hall in Pyongyang, and ensuring that all eight members of the orchestra of Korean origin does not meet any difficulties on the spot. Ultimate condition: that the orchestra can play The Star-Spangled Banner, the American anthem.

But it was first necessary to convince the members of the orchestra. Some questioned the appropriateness of a trip in one of the most repressive regimes whose ideological submit to the people of endemic poverty that would have resulted in the deaths of more than two million people on 25 million 'inhabitants in the country.

Christopher Hill, the main American diplomat in charge of negotiations with North Korea, had asked terms, remembers Rebecca Young (second alto). "We were told: you can refuse. Aware that by accepting, you may be able to change something." Robert Botti (oboe) had no hesitation: "This is a moment that music can transcend. Music can succeed where diplomacy has failed. This is a real exchange. It is my hope, our hope . It is for most of us a true privilege. "

All musicians have finally agreed to devote to the event, scheduled days off at the end of a tour that they came to perform in the region. For Adam Aron, who belongs to the group of 25 "bosses" of the New York philharmonic, "is a journey for peace. This is the first time that so many Americans went to Korea. Been remembered of the "ping-pong diplomacy." That is the same with the violin. "

180 posts would be threatened France World

This is a report of advisers at the Elysée Georges-Marc Benamou and Jean-David, which provoked the anger of the inter TV5Monde and Radio France Internationale The inter TV5Monde and of Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported Friday, February 29, their concerns about the reform of the audiovisual outside, after the revelation of a proposed job cuts, which they oppose .
According to the daily Les Echos, the report advisers at the Elysée Georges-Marc Benamou and Jean-David Levitte calls for the elimination of some 180 jobs in companies that the future holding coiffera, France World.
Job creation

Alain de Pouzilhac, appointed head of France World, nevertheless asserted that it was not "obliged to respect the report to the letter" and assured that the reform would "create jobs".
"We will fight to defend every job because employees are much TV5 being few. Given the present state of TV5Monde, dismissing means bleed our business and wipe it out," warned the Inter (SNJ, CFTC, CGT, CFDT and South) TV5Monde.
"At no time did Alain de Pouzilhac said clearly: 'I do not licencierai", added the unions of the French chain, which employs approximately 320 people.

Rendezvous with the president

They expressed concern in particular about the whereabouts of intermittent and freelancers "who represent a quarter of TV5Monde equivalent full-time and several hundred people in the three companies."
For their part, unions RFI (CFDT, FO, SNJ, SNJ-CGT and SNRT-CGT) called "consideration of the draft public broadcasting outside by the Parliament" and reiterated "the demand for appointment with the President of the Republic ".
They denounced a "cache sex of a plan of dismissal does not say his name" and "policy vampirisation" station "for the benefit of a project simplistic and misleading."
They also affirmed fears of abandonment of collective agreements journalists and public broadcasting "in the context of an administrative harmonization of the three

Ennifer Aniston is almost ready for pregnancy

Jennifer Aniston is almost ready for pregnancy
The poor actress désespérerait so to be a mother one day that it would adopt a new strategy.

At 39 years, the desire to become a mother is becoming more and more pressing for Jennifer Aniston. The poor single, which was forced to attend the family happiness of her ex, Brad Pitt, would have opted for another solution that adoption: freezing her eggs. According to Star Magazine, it would have chosen this option in order to wait in all serenity to find the man of her life. According to a source, Jennifer Aniston is now relieved of power at one time or another bring into the world a child and avoid the adoption. His spokesman reportedly denied this information.

At the moment, Jennifer Aniston on the front pages of many newspapers that people say crazy with jealousy of the new pregnancy of actress Angelina Jolie. Actress surely regret the time of her relationship with Brad Pitt with whom she could start a family. It must now make up for lost time.

The Book Fair

Ibrahim al-Moallem, chairman of the Egyptian Writers Union and secretary general of the Union of Arab Writers, speaking on 24 February in Cairo, from the choice of Israel as a guest of honour at Book Fair Paris.
Ibrahim al-Moallem, chairman of the Egyptian Writers Union and secretary general of the Union of Arab Writers, speaking on 24 February in Cairo, from the choice of Israel as a guest of honour at Book Fair Paris. Photo credits: AFP
The choice of Israel as a guest of honour at the 28th edition of the Book Fair (13-19 March) is strongly criticized by States and part of the Arab literary world.
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Two weeks before the opening of the Book Fair, Porte de Versailles, Paris, the controversy swells. The choice of Israel as a guest of honour, by the National Union of publishing, crystallizes the criticism in the Arab world while we are celebrating this year the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state.

In Rabat, early this week, the organization pan Isesco (Islamic Organization for Education, Science and Culture) drew its fifty member countries to boycott the Salon du Livre de Paris. The Union of Palestinian Writers invited publishing houses Arab and Palestinian not to go to the event. The Yemen (which does not stand) and Lebanon (see below) have already announced that they would follow these words. Publishers from Algeria and Morocco will also be absent from the stands, although some say they will "on an individual basis."

The Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswani, author of the international best-selling novel The Yacoubian Building, and an American of Palestinian origin Susan Abulhawa denounce violently, in turn, the presence of Israel as a guest of honor, while claiming that they will come anyway at the Salon.

Spirit of Transparency

As for Serge Eyrolles, president of the National Union of publishing and exhibition company, said he was "deeply disappointed by the excessive politicization of the event. I say and I repeat: for fifteen years, the Book Fair does not invite the country! He invited the literature. We n'invitons not Israel but the Israeli literature, a literature dynamic of immense wealth. "

Thirty-nine Israeli writers of all generations, Aharon Appelfeld at Etgar Keret, as well as some leading figures Amos Oz and David Grossman, will attend Porte de Versailles, from 14 to 19 March. On 13, the inauguration will be held in the presence of President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres. The organizers of the Salon insist on the "totally disconnected from the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state. We have even proposed in late 2007, to organize, with the help of the Arab World Institute (IMA) now headed by Dominique Baudis, an Arabic Book Fair, which reportedly took place on the same dates as the Book Fair Paris.

"Although our efforts have been unsuccessful, it shows our spirit of transparency, said Serge Eyrolles. Furthermore, the Israelis have a booth at the Book Fair last decade. Until now, this had no publisher shocked Arabic. My feeling is that we are victims of a boycott campaign completely disproportionate. "SNE says that" security measures for the event will be maximum. " "I can not tell you more," Eyrolles, but be aware that we do not want to take any risks with public safety. "

Faced with criticism from Arab-Muslim world, the french minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, who found a boycott of the Salon by the Arab Writers' extremely regrettable, "is one of the few to have reacted in the political class. Intellectuals and writers at the moment are strangely absent from this debate. A discretion contrasts with the indignant reactions that followed, Italy, the call for a boycott of the Turin Book Fair, which Israel is also the guest of honour next May

Arton full "Welcome to the Ch'tis"

Arton full "Welcome to the Ch'tis"

"I made this film that is very personal with a lot of heart," said Dany Boon. (Pathé Distribution)
More than one million viewers have already seen the Dany Boon comedy that takes advantage of its early exit in the north to emerge ahead of admissions to "Paris" and "Asterix at the Olympic Games."

After an outstanding start and limited to three departments (Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Sum), where he collected some 555392 entries in a week, Welcome to the Ch'tis went into high gear Wednesday, the day of his release National approximately 792 screens engrangeant 558359 entries. Either a total of 1113751 million spectators. He ranks immediately head of the entrances to the first day in France before the big productions as Les Bronzés 3 (537,000 entries), and more importantly, Asterix at the Olympic Games, which recorded 464,248 entries Wednesday, January 30.

It is a superb score for Dany Boon, the child of the countries that, with this second film as director and performer, is found from the outset with the big boys, putting it in a few thousand entries still in Spiderman 3 head with 804,345 spectators (May 1, 2005), Taxi 2 with 801,922 (March 29, 2000), Stars Wars, Episode 3 with 641,799 (May 18, 2005) and Pirates of the Caribbean 2 with 693,303 spectators (August 2, 2006) .

"I am very happy for the cinema french," said the actor, Thursday morning at the microphone RTL. I made this film that is very personal with a lot of heart (..) the result. "Whether on Paris and its suburbs (113892 entries in total) or in the provinces, Welcome to the established Ch'tis Event without much fuss, but taking advantage to its maximum output lagged in the north where we had never seen such crowds in cinemas.

Matt Damon and Sarah Silverman bed together

The comedian Sarah Silverman has struck again! After mocked Britney Spears and Paris Hilton at the MTV Video Music Awards (among others), she now boasts of having slept with Matt Damon. Worse still, she sings with the complicity of the actor! It's called "She's fucking Matt Damon," and it is to die of laughter!

Matt Damon, married and the father sleeps with comedian Sarah Silverman! In any case, what the young woman sings in the sketch "She's fu * ing Matt Damon." With the complicity of the actor, which shows a sacred sense of humor, they all have fun parody musical genres from rap to Do Well to pop through the rock in this video hilarious! Must see

He may be married with families, Matt Damon still is a man, a man who sleeps with Sarah Silverman.

In any case, what he sings with the young woman in a hilarious sketch you can discover here: "Matt Damon and Sarah Silverman sleep together and they sing!"

In the song "She's fu * ing Matt Damon", the "couple" parody musical styles all the time, rap and rock through pop, singing they slept together

accelerate the rehabilitation of the dilapidated building and revitalizing teams

Catherine Kapfer, proviseure at the Lycée Louis-Blériot d'Etampes (Essonne) in 2005, when the aggression against Karen Montet-Toutain, seems right in his boots. Mrs. Kapfer showed Thursday, February 28, before the Assize Court of Essonne, at the trial of Kevani Wansale, who stabbed several times in the open course, his professor of applied art.


Mrs. Kupfer, a former professor of physical education, arrived in the property in September 2004, at his request. She was immediately drawn to its mission: to accelerate the rehabilitation of the dilapidated building and revitalizing teams. She restored the senior adviser for education, failing in its duties. She convinced the rectorship to create new degrees in order to attract new students. "A policy of recruiting students nobody wanted elsewhere," says a report of the Inspector General released in January 2006, one month after the attack. 28% of students entering the school with more than two years late.

Finally, Mrs. Kapfer has addressed the discipline and incidents along school life, in a facility where, according to the same report, had registered a dozen young men known to the police services. "My answer was not exclusion." I wanted to listen to the students, but that some professors criticized me, "she says.

When at the beginning of December 2005, it excludes Kevani Wansale temporarily as a result of an incident a few days earlier with a teacher, she decided, after consultation with the teacher to monitor Kevani, not inform her mother. "Students major have the right to receive their ballots, sign their absences. This was Kevani desired, I observed the law," she explains.

Problem: Mrs. Montet-Toutain, teacher of the main class Kevani, is not warned and a few days later, she asked to meet with Ms. Wansale. "I have not been made aware" of the meeting, took the proviseure. Should we see in this omission to be at the origin of crazy to Kivani, a simple cafouillage or a lack of communication detrimental to the smooth running of the institution?

Karen Montet-Toutain look for the second proposal. It considers that its proviseure has demonstrated laxity. The report does not share that analysis. "The proviseure did not do anything wrong on the fact itself," the inspectors decide. Since then, Mrs. Kapfer has changed its high school. Sitting in the box, Kevani Wansale did not bronché. It will be fixed on his fate Saturday.

Death of Katoucha, a former muse of Yves Saint Laurent

The former muse of Yves Saint Laurent, Katoucha, which had been one of the first black models to parade regularly in Paris, died at the age of 47. An autopsy confirmed that the body found Thursday in the Seine was that of the former star of the podium, missing since January 31 this year.

Conducted between Thursday night and Friday morning, the autopsy determined with certainty that the body recovered Thursday to 13h in the Seine at the Garigliano Bridge in Paris was that of the former muse of Yves Saint Laurent couture, said on Friday police source.

According to forensic experts, it is dead "a rapid sinking without trace of violence," says on the same source. This confirms the hypothesis of an accidental fall into the river, which had been considered by investigators.

The judicial police in Paris was actively seeking the former model, since its mysterious disappearance on January 31 this year. She had disappeared in the evening after returning to his home, a barge moored near the Pont Alexandre III. Her purse was found on the boat.

Egérie of couturier Yves Saint Laurent in the 80, Katoucha, originally from Guinea, was one of the first black models to parade regularly in Paris, before becoming a star at the podium.

But it later by his many philanthropic efforts it has been mostly known to the general public. For example, it has partnered with other mannequins colour amount for Africa operations aimed particularly at children's hospitals.

She scrolls together in Paris his "old black sisters" in 2003, including his close friend Princess Esther Kamathari. Katoucha has also expressed its support for Miss France 2000 Sonia Rolland for the creation of villages in Rwanda for children under the project "Maïsha Africa".

Katoucha had recently published an autobiography, "In my flesh" (Michel Lafon), in which she revealed that she had excision suffered in Guinea, his homeland, at the age of nine. One cause it to become a new battle.

Questioned by the Associated Press in recent haute couture catwalks of Paris last month, Katoucha had mentioned a desire to mount a new charity campaign to establish children's villages, especially to collect and care for children orphaned West Africa.

A new gas leak had been brought under control

A new gas leak was reported in downtown Lyon, Friday, February 29, around 12 am, before being brought under control quickly according to the prefecture of the Rhone. This new leak was close to the security perimeter established Thursday after the gas explosion, which killed one person and injured 40.
Firefighters reported shortly after noon that "the leak was reported at the level of street Garibaldi and Moncey, a hundred metres south of the explosion yesterday (Thursday). Finished."

Nearly 1000 residents evacuated

According to the prefecture, this immediately led to the evacuation of residents, but this operation "has affected few people." According to firefighters, individuals would have alerted the relief centre after "felt gas" in the neighborhood.
The security perimeter set up Thursday after the explosion should be maintained much of the day Friday.
The senior delegate to the security and defence, Xavier de Fürst, also went on the spot to take stock of the situation.
Thursday, nearly 1000 residents had been evacuated after the deadly explosion. Some of them were resettled by the authorities. It is still unclear how many people have been reunited in the future their homes.

The cultural professionals call Nicolas Sarkozy

Twenty unions and federations in the world of Culture have questioned Nicolas Sarkozy during a national day of protest against the disengagement of the State in the culture.

Nearly a thousand people, according to organizers, gathered in the afternoon instead of the Palais Royal in Paris, with the slogan: "Diverse arts and culture in danger."

Other events attended by several dozen or several hundred people were also held in the provinces, including Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes and Orleans.

"If we are here is that we can not do otherwise. It is the beginning of a mobilization", launched Louis Joinet, secretary general of the Bangladesh Federal Union of intervention cultural structures (Ufisc).

He stressed that because of the freeze on funding for the creation and dissemination, cultural operators "are starting the year with complete uncertainty about their funding."

In moving to Blois (Loir-et-Cher), the Prime Minister, Francois Fillon stressed that the budget for culture is not decreasing, although some expenditures were frozen.

"First the budget for culture it is not decreasing. It is like all state budgets, we have decided to freeze all government spending over five years, for a very simple reason is that we do can not continue to increase the deficit and debt to the country, "he said.

"The cultural professionals are able to understand it like the other French," he added.

"ARTIST, SPECIES IN DANGER"

The artists themselves do not décolèrent against a policy inspired in their eyes by Nicolas Sarkozy, reflected in declines or deletions subsidies for structures less profitable.

They denounce greater willingness to impose the cultural policy of economic models under the liberal ideology.

Place du Palais-Royal, the demonstrators held a "drop bear" - artists disguised as ours - to show that the artist has become "a species in danger."

"The art should not be regarded as an object merchant, it does not have to abide by the laws of the market," said Nicolas Roméas, editor of the magazine Cassandra, at the origin of this initiative.

"It was a foregone conclusion that a government like that of Sarkozy would go against the culture," lamented the singer Sanseverino, while other demonstrators wore masks of bears.

Later, a demonstrator brandished a placard proclaiming "Touch me not", by referring to the sentence launched by a visitor to the Salon de l'Agriculture refusing to shake hands with Nicolas Sarkozy.

Besides Ufisc, the Employers' Federation of performing arts public and private (Feps), the Federation CGT du spectacle, the Federation of the street arts, Fedurok, Synavi, the Union for the establishment of the circus, in particular, called for demonstrate.

A Orleans (Loiret), nearly 200 professionals have laid a wreath where one could read "with all our grievances" to the Regional Office of Cultural Affairs (DRAC).

"The first step palpable, cuts in subsidies," said Frederick Reuters Robbe, vice president of the Federation of places of amplified music today (FEDUROK). "For multimedia, the example is shouting. The state has removed all subsidies while he was the initiator of such development projects."

In his letter of Mission Christine Albanel, Nicolas Sarkozy had hoped that public support for the establishment of 'promoting an offer meeting the expectations of the public. "

The "grenade of market forces" was thrown together "in the garden of culture," wrote Liberation Friday.

Last September, Christine Albanel had submitted a budget of 2.93 billion euros, an increase of 3.2% for 2008, but elected leftist challenged this envelope that must be removed, for example the "re-budgeting" 70 million euros decided by the Villepin government in 2006.

In fact, the increase would be only 0.7%, according to the federation CGT entertainers.

The budget, described as "mediocre" by professionals ", includes in particular a gel 6% of the appropriations for the entire performing arts. Faced with protests, the Minister of Culture has finally released 34 million.

Interview with Gerard Mordillat

In his best-seller worldwide, Misha Defonseca said how Jewish girl, she had escaped from the Gestapo in living with wolves. The autobiography was a hoax, it has just acknowledged. While Survive with the Wolves ", recently adapted to the cinema by Vera Belmont, triumph on the screens, the writer Gerard Mordillat, co-scriptwriter of the film, has agreed to answer our questions .
Gerard Mordillat. -- My position is simple: I never thought that this book tells a true story, while also confident that its author had lived something extremely traumatic, and had reinvested its own history.

What is extraordinary is that this book had a lot of readers around the world, for years. But anyone who reads realized immediately that this is an impossible story. Leaving aside some inconsistencies in the timeline, it is sufficient to mention regarding the life of this little girl with the wolves. It enters into contradiction with what we are learning all the wild stories of childhood: children do not find neither the standing nor clean, nor use of language ... I had been very surprised to read that the narrator talking like you and me upon his return camps.

BiBliObs. -- That does it not enough to put in doubt the authenticity of the story?

G. Mordillat. -- There is always a rewrite. Even among Aharon Appelfeld, it is truly a survivor of Extermination: his work was sold for fifteen years as authentic, but it's a true story romanticized. Conversely, I remember the case of Jordi Kosinski: there had been a controversy around the "colourful" bird, which had attracted the wrath of the critics, when he was presented as a novel. Here, the error was to read this book as a witness and not as a narrative.

BibliObs. -- And how do you explain that nobody was reported earlier?

G. Mordillat. -- Ah! While critics questioned what they read, the world of literature would be changed. The weight of perverse television is also something: once she submitted the story as authentic, everybody admits it is genuine. Without even reading the book. Finally, the misunderstanding was undoubtedly compounded by the fact that the text clearly rewritten by its publisher, offered an indirect access to the author.

BibliObs. -- How, then, with such doubts, have you worked on the adaptation of this book for the film Vera Belmont?
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G. Mordillat. -- Vera Belmont and I have talked a lot about all these issues arising from reading. We are particularly concerned about the timing: when Jews historically began to disappear in Belgium did not correspond with the dates given in the book. On the other hand, the episode in the Warsaw Ghetto seemed highly unlikely - we have not kept in the film. And finally, I will return, relations with the wolves, which are wild beasts, did not stand: Jean-Jacques Annaud told us how the filming of "Bear" was difficult, especially with women. The animals became furious mad when they had their rules.

Because of all these issues, we decided that the film would play on two records in the staging: the History with a big H; that of history dreamed of inner emotions. That's what makes my eyes to the success of the film: it tells the story of this little girl, but still balanced on the line between reality and the historical memory, that of someone who remembers fifty years after. Everything that is shown in the film is in this direction likely. It happened so things most incredible and most terrible during the war ...

However, Vera was obviously in good faith. She believed in it, and has loved. His film expresses the devastation of war and the wandering of a little girl. To that extent, is the story of Vera Belmont itself tells it.

controversial speech on "African man Nicolas Sarkozy

Following are controversial speech on "African man," Nicolas Sarkozy said during his visit in the second sub-Saharan Africa, which was completed Friday in Johannesburg, his desire " a "new African policy of France, particularly on the Military plan, while his wife Carla was not the first while restraint in the international arena.

Nicolas Sarkozy had begun this journey Wednesday when a stage in Chad very controversial, symbol of the country drifts French in Africa, while President Idriss Déby is accused of having engaged in a hunt for political opponents during clashes with the rebels early February .

"This is not because it is a legitimate government that can afford anything," thundered Nicolas Sarkozy to N'Djamena, while Paris was criticized for its logistical support to the Chadian army in the Clashes on February 2 and 3.

"France has been prohibited from interfering in the fighting," insisted Thursday the head of state before the South African Parliament Cape Town. "It is an unprecedented change. This change, we must continue."

He announced "renegotiation" of all agreements for the Defence of France in Africa: "France is not intended to maintain armed forces indefinitely in Africa. Africa must take care of its security problems."

Paris currently has about 9000 men on the continent and permanent bases in Djibouti, Senegal and Gabon, plus two bases in Chad and Ivory Coast.

"The concept of secret agreements should not correspond to the relations between France and Africa 2008", reiterated Friday Nicolas Sarkozy. "That does not mean we will withdraw from all the countries (...) There are countries that we wish to stay with a military presence. Stay On." For others, "it will evolve," he detailed before representatives of the French community in Johannesburg.

Paris will no longer be limited to pre-square are francophone. "I do not want to oppose the Africa anglophone and francophone Africa. Ago Africa as a whole," he stressed.

He socialist Pierre Moscovici to Friday welcomed the announcement by the Head of State "make public the agreements of Defense, in a transparent manner, it is a good thing," he said, although he wants to be "vigilant ":" as often with Nicolas Sarkozy, there is a gap between theory and practice. "And" since he is President of the Republic, his friends, Omar Bongo, we Colonel Qaddafi, Idriss Déby. .. "

The ANC President Jacob Zuma, Nicolas Sarkozy met Friday, hailed approach also said: "he is one of those who believe that we can not continue in Africa such divisions-English speakers Francophone them ... .. .-. is Africa Africa, "he said. "It's refreshing about the part of a European leader."

The presidential couple visited Friday on Robben Island, near Cape, where they were visited six square metres cell in which Nelson Mandela was detained for 18 years at the time of the Apartheid.

The french president received in a small gift piece of stone, which is supposed to have been broken couple Nelson Mandela in his career neighbour. His wife about to receive a replica of the key to his cell. They then met with all the Nobel Peace Prize near Johannesburg.

While the daily "Star" headline Friday about his presence in South Africa - "Carla Sarkozy so cosy in SA" - the wife of the Head of State has opted since his arrival on the African continent for sobriety, displaying the same Mine intimidated before the media. The lady took frequent head down, making of mine surprised by the eagerness of the photographers around her.

Questioned Friday, she wished briefly (s) 'engage in humanitarian "stating that her husband" aid (is) very much for that. "Nicolas Sarkozy, however, was less discreet," it was wonderful, "enthused one who has not missed an opportunity to draw close to him in front of the cameras." Well I was proud to be with you " He launched it.

The couple was expected to complete his visit by a private tour, were told Tuesday, the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the Elysée always refused stubbornly Friday to discuss the issue. Questioned Nicolas Sarkozy had merely smile

Odeon Theatre, directed by Olivier

Claude Régy reddens with anger. His voice, his hands shaking. He told a meeting in the offices of the Ministry of Culture in search of savings: "They advised me to take my retirement. "You can continue to work", they added. It even gave me advice artistic advised not to accompany my touring shows. And there, it's not going to, this affects the arts. There is no question that the department intervene on my way of doing things. "
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That was yesterday morning on the scene the Odeon Theatre, directed by Olivier Py. More than 150 people, directors for the most part, actors, writers, choreographers, too, had given appointments in the National Theatre emblematic linked to 68. This two-day event National Friday at the invitation of the Bangladesh Federal Union of intervention cultural structures (UFISC). Dirt until yesterday improbable family photo, where the youngest or the poorest côtoyaient the sizes of living theatre: Jean-Pierre Vincent, Alfredo Arias, Ariane Mnouchkine, Patrice Chéreau.

Triple pressure. "It tends to divide us and we tend ourselves to do so. But we are all here today, "said Jean-Pierre Vincent. We are linked economically, we are a broad co-production. "Today, virtually no theater has the means to engage in a single production.

The anger in the political voices do not hiding behind a prepared speech and policed. This rendezvous was improvised in three days, a sudden SMS and mails. Arnaud Meunier, director of the company Bad Seed, said the financial situation: "Our profession is undergoing a triple pressure. The "mechanical erosion" of the budgets of institutions which are not (with the exception of five national theatres) indexed to inflation; that of the future agreement, which will cost more expensive for employers that of 'aberration of the unemployment benefits for artists and technicians. "

The freeze precautionary 6% for the 2008 budgets of performing arts has been partially implemented. Thawing announced 35 million was not total, half of the funding has already been used to repay the debts of investment by the state and its co-financing European funds.

"Air unhealthy." Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their activity. They affected by the weakening of the artistic abilities of the institutions and they see their grants decrease, at least 4% for the Paris Region companies, 6% for those directly managed by the Ministry of Culture.

Didier Bezace (director of the Theatre de la commune in Aubervilliers) regularly reads Article 1 of the contract between his theater to the state: "This is fantastic, I am asked to be ambitious, and that suits me. I sign. But where does most is that I can no longer afford to provide this ambition. We are not in an era of contracts, breach of contract. "She added:" We breathe unhealthy air. I read a column in a weekly newsletter. The journalist writes that the restaurant is better than yawn in a theatre. "

Ariane Mnouchkine, sitting in the room alongside Patrice Chéreau, went to the same effect: "A part of the French do not understand us, we see as privileged. We were lucky if we manage to make ourselves understood. I would like the public to be there. We are still a corporatist reunion, like it or not. We do not need a victory to the taxi drivers. I do not believe in talks de Valois. There is a need for many to divide us. Albanel was put there to do nothing, it's very serious. It is as if this government was normal, but it was a government abnormal. It should sign a charter between citizens and artists. "And perhaps remember that there are over 20 million viewers per year for the performing arts (3.5 million for the national Centers drama), 69500 performances, and that the number of jobs in this sector is equivalent to that of some industrial sectors.

The appointment of the Odeon could perhaps be more effective than the interviews de Valois, which does indeed not yet the end. In June, when they expire, Christine Albanel, who has initiated, will it still Minister of Culture?

Didier Bezace spoke, quoting Jean Vilar, the "marriage" with the cruel guardianship. Union for the better, and today especially for the worse. And quoting Victor Hugo: "These are very meagre savings for many major damage."