“They were forest people. And the forests had made them in their image. To their power, their loneliness, their harshness.
Beginning of the excerpt from Sylvie Germain's novel,
Days of Anger
, Prix Femina 1989, proposed for the 2022 French baccalaureate. The text commentary aimed to question the students on how nine brothers, men of the woods raised in the Morvan were shaped by their environment.
Text borrowed from poetry, with an accessible vocabulary for pupils of the general route.
The words "venelles" and "secular", moreover, were explained in a note.
An extract yet deemed incomprehensible by some candidates who, on social networks, spread insulting comments.
What does this controversy say about the relationship of the young generation to the French language?
"We must be wary of the magnifying effect of social networks",
begins Olivier Barbarant, inspector general of the Letters to National Education group.
Social networks where the most popular influencers…
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