To be French is not the privilege of those who have French nationality. It implies knowing what France is all about: history, poetry, music, politics, culture.
Il ne suffit pas pour ĂŞtre français d’ĂŞtre de nationalitĂ© française. Nombreux sont ceux qui dans le monde se disent français sans avoir besoin d’ĂŞtre inscrits sur nos listes Ă©lectorales. Moins certainement qu’Ă l’Ă©poque oĂą les artistes du monde entier, tels Franz Liszt ou Rossini, choisissaient la France comme terre d’Ă©lection. Mais encore et toujours et partout l’on trouve des hommes et des femmes qui adhèrent Ă notre langue, notre histoire, notre culture. Et celle-ci ne se rĂ©duit certainement pas Ă la pĂ©riode rĂ©cente, marquĂ©e par les sports de masse et les conflits sociaux. Une partie de ce dĂ©nominateur commun qui lie les Français du monde entier a Ă©tĂ© rassemblĂ© dans un livre, Ă lire et Ă rĂ©apprendre: ce qu’il faut savoir pour ĂŞtre français…
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As for Balzac, he was a most remarkable combination of the artistic temperament with the scientific spirit. The latter he bequeathed to his disciples. The former was entirely his own. The difference between such a book as M. Zola’s L’Assommoir and Balzac’s Illusions Perdues is the difference between unimaginative realism and imaginative reality. ‘All Balzac’s characters’ said Baudelaire, ‘are gifted with the same ardour of life that animated himself. All his fictions are as deeply coloured as dreams. Each mind is a weapon loaded to the muzzle with will. The very scullions have genius.’ A steady course of Balzac reduces our living friends to shadows, and our acquaintances to the shadows of shades. His characters have a kind of fervent fiery-coloured existence. They dominate us, and defy scepticism. One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempre. It is a grief from which I have never been able completely to rid myself. It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I remember it when I laugh. But Balzac is no more a realist than Holbein was. He created life, he did not copy it. (Oscar Wilde)
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La mémoire orale transmise de génération en génération dans les familles françaises peut-elle se fixer? Alexandre-Pierre Gaspar a tenté l’expérience dans “A Coeur… Par Coeur”, un livre à lire et à apprendre quand on a tout oublié.
From poetry to music, from science to politics, French oral memory and culture in a single book: a must if you want to learn French roots.

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