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The Renaissance-era Villers-Cotterêts castle, in France's Picardy region, is now home to the first cultural site in the world dedicated to the French language, a project championed by President Emmanuel Macron. It's a story conveyed with words, art and architecture to pay tribute to a language spoken by some 320 million people across the globe. But is the influence of the French language still growing? We speak to Xavier North, Hassane Kassi Kouyaté and Barbara Cassin, co-curators of the exhibition.
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland. Called the Cite Internationale de la Langue Francaise the international, the centre in the small town of Villers-Cotterets hopes to attract 200,000 visitors a year to its large library, interactive exhibits, games and cultural events. Watch Macron’s speech at the inauguration ceremony above, with analysis from France 24’s Clovis Casali.
In this edition of Revisited we head to Canada to discover the diversity of the country's French accents and cultures as the use of French in the mainly English-speaking country declines. From Port Royal in Nova Scotia to Toronto via New Brunswick and Quebec, what remains of the 18th-century colony of New France? Our correspondent reports.
"The Immortals" have spoken: the 388-year-old Academie Francaise, custodian and promoter of the French language, has a new leader in the form of author Amin Maalouf.
In Tunisia, the memory of the philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon is sometimes forgotten. After his exile from Algeria due to his anticolonial fight, he spent part of his life in Tunisia, where he worked in hospitals and wrote his best known book, “The Wretched of the Earth”. Filmmakers are now touring the country to trace the steps of Fanon, in a biopic that is reviving his memory. FRANCE 24’s Lilia Blaise and Hamdi Tlili report.
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