Standing in a corner of the room, Rachida Dati listens with a somewhat distracted ear to the performance offered to her this Monday at the Philharmonie de Paris (19th century).
Facing the new Minister of Culture, appointed on January 11, the group of children aged 7 to 12 perform a lively South African dance.
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The
Gumboot
, that's its name, takes up the codes of the slaves who worked in the gold mines and communicated using the sounds produced by tapping on their rubber boots.
Faced with these children, all non-French speaking, and their teacher, the mayor (ex-LR) of the 7th arrondissement of Paris does not shy away from her pleasure: “After that we cannot say that culture does not integrate.
You are proof to the contrary.
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