From prehistory to the twentieth century revolutions, including Antiquity, the Middle Ages or the Age of Enlightenment, Laurent Dehossay and his guests travel on the time line to analyze the major stages that have led to today’s world. Humanism, wars, arts and sciences, economics, gastronomy: history is told by leaving in the footsteps of those who have shaped our present: Cleopatra, Olympe de Gouge, Napoléon, Churchill, Edith Cavell … The past sheds light on topical issues: gender and sexuality, feminism, environment, relationships between East and West … Learn to understand. One day in the story presented by Laurent Dehossay returns for an eleventh season with Yasmine Boudaka, Régine Dubois, Cindya Izzarelli, Cécile Apus, Axelle Thiry, Helena Verrier, Nicolas Bogaerts, Eric Loze, Jean-Marc Panis and Jonathan Remy. Monday, May 05 fascism floods our language? : “Mein Kampf”, can Adolf Hitler’s manifest book allow us to understand the way in which modern fascism and the extreme right interfere in our conversations? Simplification of the lexicon, torsion of reality, confusion of proposals, words trapped: it would be a question of mine rationality and pave the way to chaos. With the lights of Olivier Mannoni, translator specializing in texts on III Reich. “Brown flow – How fascism floods our language”; ed. Héloïse d’Ormesson. Serie La Romance du Piano: Episode 6: The concert is me a series in 10 episodes produced by Cécile Poss and Cyrielle Court. Tuesday May 06 “The utopia” of Thomas More: the secrets of manufacturing a major text of modern thought: death penalty, rural exodus, private property, citizen education, interreligious dialogue … in his work “Utopia”, Thomas More addresses all the themes that found “living together”. The book appeared in Louvain, in 1516, it was one of the major texts of modern thought. What reasons explain the choice of this printing place? What networks did the English diplomat activate to make his book publish? What was the success of the work of this man who paid his intransigence with Henri VIII with his life? With Renaud Adam, project manager at the University of Liège. Serie La Romance du Piano: Episode 07: You have to sing if you want to play the piano. A series in 10 episodes produced by Cécile Poss and Cyrielle Court on Wednesday May 7 Jean Toussul: a paradoxical man, an enigma of French -speaking Belgian letters Olivier Degée dit Jean Toussul was born in Landenne, in the province of Namur, at the end of the 19th century. He is a carrier worker and writer: his first book appeared in 1916, two years before he was sent to prison due to pacifism. In the interwar period, coughing becomes one of the sure values of French-speaking Belgian literature. Journalist, trade unionist, ecologist before time. There remains a literary enigma. Jean Toussul, will be able to transform the promising essay, since in the interwar period, he will manage to make French-speaking Belgian literature shine beyond borders. Author of more than 40 works and 900 press articles. But who is Jean Toussul, born in Landenne-sur-Meuse? With Jacques Vandenbroucke, historian-archivist in the regional archives of Wallonia in Namur. Author of “Olivier Degée dit Jean Toussul, the melancholic country”. Serie La Romance du Piano: Episode 08: The King of Pianos. A series in 10 episodes produced by Cécile Poss and Cyrielle Court. Thursday, May 8: Monsieur de Saint-George: born in 1739 in Guadeloupe, son of a slave and a noble planter, Monsieur de Saint-George was adopted by the Parisian aristocracy for his multiple talents: fencer, dancer and especially musician. He will eventually direct the best orchestras in Europe and pass for Mozart’s rival. Louis XVI wishes to appoint him director of the Royal Opera, but two candlestants refuse to be led by a Métis. Never mind, during the Revolution, he created a regiment of black and mestone fighters. Let’s be aware of the exceptional destiny of this repudiated history with Alain Guédé, journalist, president of the association “Le Concert de Monsieur de Saint-George”. Author of “Monsieur de Saint-George-a rival of Mozart”; South act. Serie La Romance du Piano: Episode 09: Forget the hammers. A series in 10 episodes produced by Cécile Poss and Cyrielle Court. Friday, May 9: Genocide of the Herero: for the first time, on May 27, 2021, Germany admitted to having committed “a genocide” in Namibia, a century earlier, on the people of the Herero. What are the reasons and conditions of “this first genocide of the terrible twentieth century”, according to the expression of Albert Camus? Can it be seen as a kind of Shoah matrix? With Joël Kotek, professor at the Free University of Brussels and teacher at the Paris Serie Political Studies Institute La Romance du Piano: Episode 10: The digital era. A series in 10 episodes produced by Cécile Poss and Cyrielle Court
