2023-11-18 08:00:00
2 minutes
Adopt the “Marianne of the future”
He had always dreamed of designing a stamp. Olivier Balez, illustrator, won the competition to create the new postage stamp, “the Marianne of the future”, whose hair merges with foliage, echoing the ecological transition. For its creation, the graphic designer worked with Pierre Bara, intaglio engraver, who adapted his drawing. “ A beautiful meetinghe tells us, with a craftsman who went to the same school as me! » Olivier Balez has produced several front pages for La Croix L’Hebdo.
5 minutes
Take a toilet break
Placed end to end, the rolls of toilet paper used in a French life can connect Paris to Geneva, or 540 kilometers. This is half as much as for an American, but 100 times more than for a Nigerian. This Sunday, World Toilet Day, reminds us that this subject, which may seem trivial, is not for forests. 31 million trees are needed each year to supply the United States with toilet paper, and an area equivalent to 14,000 football fields for the United Kingdom.
Infographics on vividmaps.com (keywords: “toilet paper”)
4 × 15 minutes
Follow an investigative journalist
The 15th of 2014, Release reveals that the UMP paid 18 million euros to the Bygmalion company for fictitious party congresses. This is the beginning of the Bygmalion affair. Put on the trail by an article published in Point two months earlier, Violette Lazard is far from imagining the scale of the electoral financing fraud scandal that she will bring to light. On the occasion of Nicolas Sarkozy’s appeal trial, which opened on November 8, the journalist retraces her investigation, her gropings and her discoveries, in the exciting new season of the “Mechanics of Journalism” podcast.
Listen on radiofrance.fr and listening platforms
1 hour
Watch out for the climate
Dionysians, Nantais, Brestois! Scientists come to you for a few days during the Climate and Biodiversity Tour, which takes place from November 20 to 28. Free, and accessible from the age of 9, the exhibition presents the natural mechanisms which influence the climate, and those which result from human action. The final part presents local and global initiatives, which show that it is still possible to act. Activities are also planned “outside the walls”: field visits, conferences, film debates, etc.
The tour is intended to continue
in 2024 in other cities in France.
toureclimat
biodiversite.fr
3 hours
Admire street art without moving
The artist Christian Guémy, alias C215, practices urban painting, done with a stencil. He plasters his portraits on mailboxes, walls, outdoors or in prisons, in Paris and in Ukraine. He draws Simone Veil as well as Master Yoda, Samuel Paty or anonymous caregivers during the Covid crisis. In recent years, he has also ventured into stained glass. The world of C215. Street stencil art is a sort of catalog of his works, classified like an alphabet book, from A for Lovers to Z for Zaporogue. The trip is worth a look!
Éd. Gründ, 288 p., 34,95 €
3 × 58 minutes
Uncover the secrets of Hezbollah
The link between drug cartels in Colombia, the Beirut port explosion and suicide attacks? Hezbollah. On the other hand, the Lebanese “Party of God”, created in 1982, claims to be respectable and committed to the social protection of its fellow citizens. On the other hand, former undercover members of the American anti-drug agency reveal the villainous source of the organization’s funding: Colombian drug trafficking. Jérôme Fritel and Sofia Amara deliver these previously unpublished words in a shocking documentary on the Hamas ally.
Hezbollah, the banned investigation, on france.tv
1 day
Revise your English
This Saturday is the English Festival, an event organized by Cambridge University Press & Assessment, which offers English courses and exams all year round in different countries around the world. On Saturday, conferences and workshops are accessible online upon registration, and adapted to various ages and levels: recommendations for going to study or work abroad, dance song for children aged 4 to 7, cooking in english… A workshop is notably led by I Love Englishmagazine published by Bayard as La Croix L’Hebdo. It’s up to you !
Registrations on
cambridgeenglish.org/fr
A few hours or a few days
Dig the documentary
Understand how Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini learn their texts through documentary By heart, by Benoît Jacquot, broadcast in Gers. Waltz with the dancers Grand bal, superb film by Laetitia Carton on village balls, screened in the Var. Attend a film concert in Montreuil-sous-Bois. Participate in a conference on cinema professions in Chartres. For its 24th edition, documentary month is once again offering a rich program throughout France. This year’s theme: “Speak out”. A fascinating (and free) dive into the cinema of reality to reflect rurality, migrations, culture, sport…
Programming on moisdudoc.com
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