2024-04-29 13:56:37
“The French language builds the unity of the nation” and it is “a language of freedom and universalism”, declared the President of the French Republic, in a speech, delivered in the courtyard of the castle, where Francis I had signed in 1539 the ordinance imposing French in legal texts, the beginning of its use as an official language.
This grandiose and unprecedented cultural project, the first place dedicated to the French language in the world, is a “crazy dream”, a “utopia realized”, declared Mr. Macron, who discovered in 2017, during his first presidential campaign, this ancient royal hunting residence in an advanced state of disrepair.
The place will “particularly” honor “essential figures” of the French language, according to President Macron: teachers, writers and creators, actors, librarians and translators, “who transmit and bring French to life in this constant pulsation”.
Cubic “magic library” containing thousands of books, where artificial intelligence provides the visitor with personalized reading advice, interactive dictation, shows and artist residencies: the City “is not a museum”, was keen to clarify its director Paul Rondin.
Villers-Cotterêts, located 80 km from the capital, will host the Francophonie summit in the fall of 2024, to which the leaders of 88 states will be invited.
2024-04-29 13:56:37