MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 01/04/2025 - 01/04/2025
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00:00Welcome to Médien-TV and La France is the library of the National Assembly in Paris which will be, for the first time in its history, open to the general public from April 10, after a number of meticulous restorations under the orders of the Republic.
00:24700,000 books, law books, collections of the State Council, but also the founding texts of democracy.
00:34This splendid place will open again after a year of a vast renovation site.
00:40And for the first time, the library will be open to the public, as it was previously reserved for parliamentarians, as prescribed by the Law of 4 March 1796.
00:52Members and Senators, then the European elected representatives and their collaborators, only researchers, were allowed to compile the 700,000 books of the Patrimonial Fund on demand, of course.
01:07The works, the first in the history of the library, thus restored the ceilings, painted by Eugène Delacroix, nicknamed his Chapel Sixtine by the Romantic painter.
01:18The Library of the Bourbon Palace, officially created in 1796, was the subject of an alarming diagnosis in 2019 concerning the state of the paintings.
01:28The room, 42 meters long and 15 meters high, offers 18 kilometers of lighting, organized on two floors.
01:36There are mainly works of law, political science, history, economics and social sciences, as well as university theses in the same fields.
01:45It also has an exceptional old foundation, rich with about 1,900 manuscripts, 80 incunables and many rare and original editions.
01:55I invite you to listen to Pierre Bosse, Director of the French National Assembly Library.
02:04This is an exceptional moment, because for the first time since its creation in 1834, the library has been completely restored.
02:16In other words, we have not only restored the paintings, but we have also used this opportunity to restore the whole of the library, which had never been done for 200 years.
02:28So here we have what many call the Chapel Sixtine of Delacroix.
02:34He considered it to be one of his masterpieces.
02:37In fact, it took him nine years to realize the prowess of painting such a gigantic space in very difficult conditions.
02:49The works, which began in December 2023, also allowed for a complete renovation.
02:55For example, moquettes were placed to find the original parquets in Angry Point.
03:01Thermal standards were set, the works also allowed to secure the places, to protect the collections thanks to new hygrometric systems,
03:10to modernize the lighting and above all to restore the 400 square meters of painted ceilings.
03:16Prior to this, we had to move some 454,000 works in the room and in this building,
03:25without gathering historical documents, such as one of the last two copies in Latin of the verbal trial that led Jeanne d'Arc to the Bûcher,
03:33or the founding texts of the Republic, the Encyclopedia of Diderot, or the Manuscript of the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
03:41This re-opening after renovation marks a new chapter in the history of the historic building of the French Republic.
03:47The room, 42 meters long, was put in danger in 1944, during the liberation of Paris,
03:53during which 25,000 volumes of scientific collections had been destroyed.
03:58A more serious fire took place in 1961 in the Palais Bourbon, causing an explosion, which fortunately spared the library.
04:08It is therefore a library of the National Assembly, renovated and secured, which will open its doors on April 10, 2025.
04:18I invite you to listen to Pierre Bos, the director of the library of the French National Assembly.
04:27Delacroix was also a scholar.
04:31And for him, decorating the library was not an essential place, a place of knowledge for the representatives of the nation.
04:41So he told us a story.
04:44He used an old practice of the Middle Ages, which was to draw in the domes what we would find underneath.
04:53So, from religion, we will find religious works, from law, we will find works of law.
05:00You know, we now welcome 200,000 visitors a year.
05:05It has doubled since 2022.
05:09And visitors will benefit from a new access, a space that will be reserved for them in the nave,
05:16which will allow them to fully enjoy the entirety of the paintings.
05:22So there is really a dimension of making citizens a heritage that is theirs.
05:28And music.
05:30And the 80s of the singer Eric Clapton, who has just released his new album entitled Meanwhile,
05:35expected for a long time, knowing that I Still Do, the last to have original compositions, still dates back to 2016.
05:43At 80, Eric Clapton remains today one of the essential artists of blues and country.
05:49Members of many groups, such as the Yardbirds and Cream, his songs Layla or Tears in Heaven,
05:55have revealed spans of his genius.
05:58Raised by his grandparents, Eric Clapton, rocked by the blues,
06:01shows very quickly the skills for the guitar,
06:04the devices he develops by setting up a first group, the Woosters, in 1963,
06:10before briefly joining the Casey Jones and the Engineers.
06:14It was in 1964 that the artist's career took on a real dimension
06:19and subsequently the artist opened up to ballads, slow songs and country,
06:24which will gradually take the lead on his compositions so far blues.
06:29He also participates in a concert given by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and meets George Harrison.
06:34The two men maintain a deep friendship that leads Eric Clapton
06:39to contribute to George Harrison's first solo album.
06:42All Things Must Pass follows the groups, the debauchery and death of his four-year-old son.
06:48In May 2016, he released his 23rd album, I Still Do, and today, Meanwhile, his 24th album.
06:54Let's listen to this excerpt.
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07:40When your man had let you down
07:44Like a fool, I fell in love with you
07:48You turned my whole world upside down
07:51Layla
07:54Got me on my knees, Layla
07:58Layla