The Elysée announced that a national tribute would be paid to Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, who died on August 5 at the age of 94, "before the end of the summer at the Invalides". Upstream, the France Télévisions group decided to shake up its programs in honor of the historian. Tonight at 22:45 p.m. on France 5 will be broadcast Pour l'amour des mots, a documentary dedicated to him. In this portrait by Marie-Dominique Montel and Christopher Jones in 2011, the first woman at the head of the Académie française reveals herself and takes a look at our time, the time she has scrutinized and analyzed all her life.
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The words of the historian are the common thread of this documentary. Marina Carrère d'Encausse's mother first evokes her country of origin, the former USSR, and protests against its demonization but also the excesses of this totalitarian system. The one who insisted at all costs to be called "Madam Perpetual Secretary" carefully deciphers the great ideologies of the century.
The france.tv platform also pays tribute to him by making available a documentary entitled Académie française, voyage au pays des immortels. The director Serge Moati was able to enter the institution of the Quai Conti in Paris to tell its history, its uses and its codes. The academicians, including Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, confided in turn and testified to their memories and their functions.