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Julie Gayet, lead actress and director of the film “Olympe”, continues her tour of the schools of Occitanie. Friday December 6, 2024, she was at the Jean-Rostand college in Valence-d'Agen for an intervention full of symbols and necessary, at a time when the place of women in certain countries of the world is ever more precarious.
The students of the Jean-Rostand college in Valence-d'Agen (Tarn-et-Garonne) will remember Friday, December 6, 2024 for a long time. The approximately 700 schoolchildren had the pleasure of meeting and exchanging a few words with Julie Gayet at lunch time. The actress and director then spent a large part of the day in the establishment for several discussions, notably in class with fourth grade classes, on her film “Olympe”.
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“It’s a pleasure to welcome an exceptional artist who is a friend. We have known each other for a long time, commented the mayor of the town, Jean-Michel Baylet. In this film, which takes us back to the time of the Revolution, she embodies Olympe de Gouges in a marvelous way. She knew how to portray this character who has become a model for all women in the world, an example of courage, determination and commitment,” he enthused.
“The students ask a lot of questions”
Faced with so much praise, the actress first highlighted her team of technicians, “mainly from the Occitanie region, in which we made it a point of honor to shoot the scenes, including those supposed to take place in Paris,” she explained. Before welcoming the welcome received in educational establishments.
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“Often, teachers are apprehensive about our meeting. But they realize that their students are very interested and ask a lot of questions about Olympe. And this allows them to subsequently engage in discussion in another way on the values that she defended, including secularism. She carried the hope of a revolution within the Revolution.
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Olympe de Gouges, “a pioneer”
Olympe de Gouges is, still in 2024, a current Tarn-et-Garonnaise personality. “She is a pioneer and is not highlighted enough,” regrets Jean-Michel Baylet.
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“She was obviously a feminist, with her Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens. She is the only woman who climbed the scaffold because of her commitments, recalled Julie Gayet. But she also worked as a humanist , for example against slavery. His promotion during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, with a statue of him, touched me enormously.
Equality between women and men, “a constant fight”
This fight for equality is still, unfortunately, far from won. “We see it today in the world, with a decline in freedoms, whether in Afghanistan, Syria, more widely in the Middle East or in increasingly authoritarian regimes in Russia with Putin or in the United States with Trump, says J.-M. Baylet. It’s a constant fight.”
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And Julie Gayet concludes: “Even in France today, we must fight for equality between men and women.” The film, of remarkable accuracy and communicative emotion, fits perfectly into a fight carried by all humanists.
