Étienne is a 70-year-old “young” grandfather. As he thinks about what he would like to pass on to his three grandchildren, he often thinks of his own maternal grandmother whose letters he treasures. “Mamine” was affectionate, modern and very “cash” in the way she spoke to her grandson. → TESTIMONIALS. What grandparents want to pass […]
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The very long history of the Christmas present
Today, young children are told that gifts reach them by sledge, brought from the white lands of Lapland, under the supervision of an outstanding logistician with a long beard. But we must set course for ancient Rome if we want to approach the origin of these gifts. This is where the custom of Christmas gifts […]
Homage to Samuel Paty: history teachers facing history
During the holidays, Fabien Mione, 38, talked a lot with his colleagues on different Whatsapp groups. “ Shocked »By the appalling assassination of Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography like him, this associate who teaches at the François-Villon college, classified as a priority education zone in the 11e arrondissement of Marseille, felt the need […]
Hypersensitivity, “the threshold varies depending on the time”
The cross : In recent years, we have heard a lot about hypersensitivity. Are we more sensitive today? Alain Corbin : I do not think so. The history of sensitivities culminates at the end of the 18th centurye century, with Rousseau, Chateaubriand and romanticism. In the 15th and 16th centuries, with Ronsard for example, literature […]
“ORTF, they invented television”, a history of television
” If your name is melancholy Sang Joe Dassin, whose face and voice open Philippe Thuillier’s documentary, directed by Matthieu Jaubert. If your name is… nostalgia, do we want to hum, discovering this two-part film which traces the beginnings of television. Images which seem to come from a very distant world, that of a somewhat […]