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Maryse Condé, Guadelopean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 08:51

Author of novels drawing on African and Caribbean history enjoyed international acclaim, including the New Academy prize, which stood in for the Nobel in 2018

Maryse Condé, the Guadeloupean author of more than 20 novels, activist, academic and sole winner of the New Academy prize in literature , has died aged 90.

Condé, whose books include Ségu and Hérémakhonon was regarded as a giant of the West Indies, writing frankly – as both a novelist and essayist – of colonialism, sexuality and the black diaspora, and introduced readers around the world to a wealth of African and Caribbean history.

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Seine-Saint-Denis: des maires mettent l’État en demeure d’agir pour l’école publique

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Tuesday, 2 April - 07:30

«Troubles à l’ordre public de l’éducation». C’est sur ce motif que douze maires du 93 ont publié un arrêté commun, afin de forcer l’État à accéder aux demandes des parents et des syndicats qui réclament depuis six semaines un «plan d’urgence» pour le département.

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Yannick review – Quentin Dupieux goes for laughs in absurdist theatre hijack comedy

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 06:00 · 1 minute

Dupieux’s melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play

Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly small number of film-makers on the non-Anglo-American distribution circuit who really is interested in – and allowed to make – straight-up comedy, albeit flavoured with melancholy or violent absurdity. For me, only Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern are comparable. Aki Kaurismäki, for example, is different; although gently and wonderfully comic, his films don’t try to hit the laugh lines in the same way.

The prolific Dupieux has now created a 67-minute sketch, a one-act cine-play about a mediocre Paris stage company performing a dinner-theatre comedy called The Cuckold to a bored, half-empty house. Just as they are grinding through their tired old routines, a guy called Yannick (Raphaël Quenard) stands up in the auditorium and announces that this so-called comedy is making him sad and he wants his money back. The dumbfounded actors start mocking this jerk but Yannick pulls a gun, clambers on to the stage and demands a word processor and printer so he can write a better play for them. Is he a radical hero for disrupting mediocre bourgeois culture? If this is a hostage situation, he says, well, so is sitting through a bad play.

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Remains of missing French toddler Emile Soleil found in French Alps

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 01:16

Bones were discovered near the hamlet of Le Vernet, close to where the little boy went missing in 2023

French investigators have found the remains of a toddler who went missing in 2023 , in a case that shocked the nation.

Investigators are now working to determine how the boy died, a prosecutor said on Sunday.

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Singer Aya Nakamura hits back at racist abuse over Olympics rumour

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 31 March - 11:47

New track features lyrics ‘It’s them that don’t like me’ after far-right backlash against idea she could cover Édith Piaf song

The French-Malian superstar Aya Nakamura, who has been subjected to racist abuse after it emerged that she could perform an Édith Piaf song at this summer’s Paris Olympics, has used a new single to hit back at her far-right critics.

In the track Doggy, released on Friday, the 28-year-old musician sings: “I don’t have enemies, me/It’s them that don’t like me,” adding: “A load of enemies but I don’t even know them.”

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Santé: le gouvernement alourdit encore la facture des Français

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Friday, 29 March - 11:12

Le 31 mars, les franchises médicales augmentent. Toujours dans le but de faire des économies, Bruno Le Maire a également annoncé une réforme des affections de longue durée. Celle-ci va peser sur les plus malades, les personnes handicapées et les plus modestes.

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Ce n’est pas en 2024 qu’on se débarrassera enfin du changement d’heure

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 29 March - 06:00

Le passage à l'heure d'été aura lieu le week-end des 30 et 31 mars 2024. Cette mesure était censée prendre fin. Cependant, le dossier est en suspens depuis des années au sein des institutions européennes.

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Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March - 20:14

Photos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observers

If the official photos are anything to go by, Emmanuel Macron’s three-day trip to Brazil has been more romantic getaway than international diplomacy.

The French president, who ended his tour of the South American country on Thursday with a state visit to the capital, Brasília, prompted online hilarity after the publication of photos showing him being particularly chummy with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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Les mouvements écologistes à l’épreuve de la répression judiciaire

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Thursday, 28 March - 17:55

Attisées par l’urgence climatique, les tensions n’ont jamais été aussi fortes entre les organisations écologistes et l’État, qui se veut désormais implacable vis-à-vis de certains modes d’action tels que la désobéissance civile et assume la criminalisation d’un «écoterrorisme»"."