You lose nothing by trying your luck;
quite the contrary.
While Jean-Jacques Goldman has left the media scene since 2016, the singer has agreed to respond to an interview with high school students in Montpellier.
The goal?
Produce a book of testimonials on the health crisis entitled
Stars and high school students, positive against the coronavirus,
the profits of which are donated to the Red Cross.
Alongside nine other artists, Goldman shares his thoughts on the pandemic and how he's going through it.
“
The idea for the book was born during the first confinement,
says Patrick Loubatière, French teacher at the initiative of the project
.
I was worried about the risk of dropping out of school possible with the pandemic, so I looked for a project that would bring the whole class together.
Seventy second-year students from Lycée Joffre in Montpellier took part in its production, which spanned two school years.
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The book has two parts. A primer on Covid-19 written by the first class during the spring 2020 confinement. It deals with the different aspects of the crisis in around a hundred articles, from the impact on stock market prices to hair changes. The second part, produced in 2021 by another class of Second, is dedicated to ten artists, including Jean-Jacques Goldman, Sophie Marceau, Jane Fonda, Mark Hamon (
NCIS
), Patrick Bruel, Julien Clerc, Francis Cabrel, Pierre Richard or Albert Dupontel. It comes in portraits, analyzes of works or interviews, as with the singer of
Je te donne.
"
I think these artists agreed to answer us because they were all touched to see young people trying to be positive during this difficult period
, ”said Patrick Loubatière.
Artists involved
"
We had to fight to get in touch with them, because they are 10 major personalities, who do not give up much
," recalls the French teacher. In order not to go through the agents, the high school students carried out “
real investigative work
”
,
which consisted of making contact with relatives of the artists. To contact Jean-Jacques Goldman, the French teacher simply sent an email to his main collaborator. Paid solution: the favorable response arrived a few days later. “
It was great because usually Goldman refuses to speak
“, he testifies. The interview was rather quick, but detailed enough for the singer to deliver his thoughts on the pandemic. Goldman thus testifies to his nostalgia for the pre-covid era, when he could enter a restaurant or a theater without fear. "
He spoke to us about his mother, now deceased, who lived four years of confinement during the Second World War
", says the French teacher who was marked by the artist's enthusiasm: "“Little it doesn't matter if the project isn't finalized, I liked taking part in it”,
he explained to us.
Goldman's testimony is accompanied by two analyzes of his titles,
Staying Up Late
and
Born in 17 in Leidenstadt,
entrusted to high school students.
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Professor Patrick Loubatière and Fanny, Mayline and Marie, three high school girls who took part in the project.
Patrick Loubatiere
"
Some artists have spent more time than expected with my students,
" explains the teacher.
Julien Clerc, for example, was only supposed to stay 10 minutes with us, but he talked to us for 30 minutes.
The same goes for Pierre Richard, with whom he exchanged a dozen times. With regard to Sophie Marceau, Patrick Loubatière underlines that, usually,
"she never gives herself up in the press
"
.
“
But there, she gave us very personal answers. She really put herself in the students' shoes and even told us that the interview had done her a lot of good, when she was the one who gave us a magical gift
”, he rejoices.
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A good reception by the public
The 126-page illustrated book
Stars and high school students, positive against the coronavirus
has been sold since December for 24 euros (including postage) on the Joffre high school website, star high school students.
In the form of a large glossy magazine, it has already generated many reactions among readers.
“
What touches us in their feedback is on the one hand the positivity and on the other hand the fact that they don't necessarily talk about the stars but about the whole book.
Some even told us that the book will remain as a testimony of this unique time in history
”.
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Everyone also appreciated the primer, reports the professor.
"
Some also say that the addition of all these articles gives a photograph of our time, without bias or political vision
", he explains before specifying that the book has already made it possible to collect 2500 euros for the Cross- Red.
“
It's great, because even at 15, they can see that action pays off
,” says the professor.