"The word saves."
It is with these words that Bertrand Périer's book opens.
Published by Lattès, the work can be browsed like a portrait gallery.
They are comedians, Prix Goncourt, resident of the Comédie Française, soldier or politician and all have a voice.
Through their words, their hesitations and their silence, the lawyer, oratorical teacher notably known for having participated in the film
A Voice Aloud
, shows how mastery of the language, orally, can influence the course of a life.
For
Le Figaro,
he returns to
the importance of nuance at the time of certainties and "fixed ideas".
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LE FIGARO.
- You write in your book: "The word changes individual and collective destinies".
Do you think that mastery of public speaking has the power to change the course of a life?
Bertrand PÉRIER.
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I write it not because I believe it, but because I know it: speaking has changed my life!
The fact of having gained confidence, by dint of practicing taking
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