Nearly 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse announced this Friday the launch of an educational project around 12 caricatures. Volunteer teachers will be able to introduce them to students from January 2025.
For the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks targeting the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, unveiled this Friday, November 22, the twelve caricatures which will be studied in Ile-de-France high schools. The courses will be run by volunteer teachers from January 2025 until 2027. They will receive decryption and recontextualization sheets.
“The stakes are all the more important since the high school students we welcome in our classes were aged five to eight years in 2015. They therefore probably only have a vague, very fragmentary memory of what, at Charlie Hebdo or at the Bataclan, was a national trauma,” she explained.
Here is the list drawn up in collaboration with the media education association Dessinez Create Liberté (DCL), which was founded by Charlie Hebdo and SOS Racisme.
• A drawing of King Louis-Philippe
Students will discover a satirical drawing, dating from 1831, which represents King Louis-Philippe, transformed into a pear.
• The cover of the satirical newspaper Le Grelot
French painter Alfred Le Petit mocks press freedom in a drawing, which appeared on the cover of the satirical newspaper The Bell in 1872.
• A family dinner in the context of the Dreyfus Affair
The caricature was created in 1898 by Emmanuel Poire Caran D'Ache. It represents a family dinner “before” and “after” talking about the Dreyfus Affair, to illustrate the divisions in society at the time around this subject.
• A lithograph on the separation of Church and State in 1904
• An issue of Hara-Kiri on the death of General De Gaulle
On November 17, 1970, the newspaper Hara-Kiri is banned from publication, following the publication of n°94 with its title “Tragic ball in Colombey – 1 death”. This evokes the death of General de Gaulle and also refers to the fire on November 1 of a dance hall, where 146 people died.
A few days later, the first issue of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo appears. It was created by the same team to replace Hara-Kiri.
• A caricature on beliefs for Libération
In this selection, religion is also mentioned, with in particular a caricature on beliefs, produced by Willem for Liberation.
“All religions, all beliefs, all political thoughts, all institutions can be mocked because it is not an attack on beliefs, it is simply the exercise of freedom of expression and that is what which should be remembered”, explains Pierre Liscia, the special delegate to the regional council responsible for secularism and citizenship.
• A drawing on humor for Charlie Hebdo
Students will be able to look at the drawing of Coco, published in 2017 in Charlie Hebdo. It is written “And God created… humor” above three Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives who respond with the same voice: “it is written nowhere.”
On the other hand, the prophet Mohammed, Jesus or even Moses will be absent from the drawings chosen by the Region so as not to “immediately offend” the high school students in the message transmitted.
• A drawing by Coco on the “New Censors”
• An issue of Charlie Hebdo after the Arras attack
• “Online courts” by Xavier Gorce for Le Monde
• The influence of technologies on young people by Riss for Charlie Hebdo
• “Welcome to the Prime Minister of the week” by Riss for Charlie Hebdo
In parallel with lessons on these different media, the community will launch a major caricature competition for high school students from January 1 to April 27 on the theme of “fake news”.
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