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Behind the scenes of adult classes given by Brigitte Macron

2022-01-27T17:46:17.069Z


Reportage.- In Roubaix, we followed the first lady in the reorientation school for adults where she teaches literature.


It begins as the first pages of

La Marche de Radetzky follow one another,

this explosive novel and worldwide success by Joseph Roth, which unfolds five generations of the same family, lives and deaths overlapping, without pause for its reader. This course, she leads it at a gallop, from the start. Standing in front of her students, microphone in her left hand, she challenges her audience, part of whom is in the room, the other reacting via two large screens placed against a wall. “Hello Roubaix, everyone here is well? We have Valence with us, we have Clichy in line. How's Valencia? We have the texts, everyone has the texts in hand?

In a navy blue pantsuit, her hands sweeping the air, the professor takes the side of the stand-up, not the masterful office. Nestled on the 4th floor, the classroom has large windows that pour out a vast sky, and around fifty masked adults discover the sheets distributed by the wife of the Head of State. Which connects, the powerful voice, very comfortable: So, today, we are in the novel of the XIX.

The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Germinal,

and we will end with

Bel-Ami.

We attack from the incipit.

What is an incipit?

This is the start of the novel.

It's essential.

It creates a framework, characters, a story.

We are going to study together four monsters of French literature: Stendhal, Flaubert - my champion in all categories -, Zola and Maupassant.

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We are at the Vocations Institute for Employment (LIVE) in Roubaix, with the first class of students recruited in September 2021. Before Roubaix, the LIVEs in Clichy-sous-Bois and Valence opened in 2019 and 2020, with a common objective: to support adults aged 25 and over, far from employment, who may be highly qualified or not at all, sometimes in a precarious situation, often already parents, and who are looking to (re)build a project solid professional.

Founded with funding from LVMH, the LIVE association, directed by Olivier Théophile* and chaired by Brigitte Macron, is developing a proven training program.

These students, whose average age turns out to be 38, are given lessons in English, maths, marketing, self-confidence and… literature,

with the aim of bringing out the best and, first of all, autonomy.

Thirty hours per week, face-to-face, for financially supported adults (up to 900 euros per month), chosen by local actors in charge of employment.

In two years, two hundred people have been accompanied (over three or six months), 180 are currently.

The professor resumes, in a single breath: “What does that mean, novel?

Is it true or is it false?

And the difference between author and narrator, who gives it to me?

Hands go up.

"What is a Learning Novel?"

asks Brigitte Macron.

"With

Le Rouge et le Noir,

it is that of a young man who is about to enter the world, so the text is about to tell... either his triumph or his fall."

The meaning of the formula.

Brigitte Macron goes from the frame to the style, and the moral of the story.

"Julien Sorel will be condemned by society not because he falls in love with whom he shouldn't, but because he wanted to get out of his condition."

The teacher looks for a reaction.

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

In the Pierre Paulin salon, in front of

Liberté, liberté: Tribute to Abbé Grégoire, triptych

(1990), a painting by Alfred Manessier.

Matias Indjic

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

President of the Fondation des Hôpitaux, Brigitte Macron succeeded Bernadette Chirac in June 2019.

Matias Indjic

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

Brigitte Macron in her office at the Élysée.

Matias Indjic

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

At the Élysée, she opened the doors of the left wing of the palace wide.

Matias Indjic

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

Brigitte Macron, the Cover Story

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Touchingly, some rise to read aloud the photocopied passages, shy or more confident.

Not a mockery, neither via the screens nor in the room.

For team cohesion, the LIVE has won its bet.

Brigitte Macron advises.

"A little lesson in posture: breathe, tilt your pelvis, raise your voice to the ceiling."

Reading the first lines of

Germinal

allows us to explore the distinction between naturalism and realism.

Fist raised, biting voice, Brigitte Macron details two reproductions of paintings she brought, Courbet and Caillebotte.

“What is scandalous here, in your opinion?”

She catches a student's eye, doesn't let go.

Two blue marbles launched at full speed, tactile eyes.

After an hour and a half at this pace, the public admits to being amazed by the simplicity that the wife of the Head of State establishes in her reports, by her humor, her enthusiasm, her even banter.

She lives what she wants to convey. 

who left high school just before the baccalaureate, and is developing a future in early childhood.

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Will this hour and a half be enough to penetrate the 19th century, to approach four major works in such a short time?

No, of course not, and that's the limit of the exercise.

There is play in this lesson conducted twice a month with beating drums, risk too.

How do you really make people want to read difficult works that are not used to them, or are no longer used to them?

To speak with passion of the excessive ambitions of Julien Sorel, Emma Bovary or Georges Duroy, known as Bel-Ami, is a skilful choice which aims first and foremost to create desire and curiosity.

The audacity to build or rebuild oneself also involves a short afternoon of literature at full speed.

*Also LVMH Social Responsibility Director.

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