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Citizens’ Currency
Creating money isn’t a privilege purely reserved to state banks.
Since 2010, local currencies have been launched all over France. Issued by the citizens themselves, their role is to restore, on their territory, the humanity and meaning that conventional money no longer has in their eyes, while re-es...
Claude Debussy, La Mer
Claude Debussy was always particularly drawn to the sea and wrote La Mer in just 18 months, a very short time for him. He became a recognised artist and a leading reference in the world of music. He was also an important critic. In January of the same year, 1903, he was made Chevalier of the Legion ...
Dividers at the Binic Festival
The leader, Ismaël, gathered a quartet inspired by classic Americana, twisted in a deafening antifolk. Traumatized by Lee Hazlewood, The Gun Club, Marc Bolan and Violent femmes, Dividers accelerate and purify these folk melodies. The melancholic songwritting and nonchalant voice merge with Fuzz howl...
DREAM MOUNTAINS: the Monch & the Jungfrau
The 3rd episode of the series "Dream Mountains" is one wherein we climb the most beautiful peaks in the Alps. After the Eiger & the Grand Paradis, this time Carole and her guide take us to the Mönch and the Jungfrau, 2 peaks more than 4000m above sea level in the Bernese Oberland. The journey be...
Engelbert Humperdinck: Prelude of Hänsel and Gretel (l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France)
Engelbert Humperdinck chosed the popular legend of Hansel and Gretel based on the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale to compose his opera in 3 acts which became his greatest masterpiece. Two children lost in the forest by their parents, attracted by the gingerbread house of an evil witch...
EugÈne Ysaye: Sonata N ° 3 for solo violin
Ysaÿe wanted to compose works for violin alone, reflecting the evolution of the violin techniques and music of his time. In this set of sonatas, he used the main features of early twentieth-century music, such as whole-tone scales, dissonances, and quarter-tones. Ysaÿe also used virtuoso bow and adv...
Exceptional hunting dog expeditions
Black grouse, authentic wild red-legged partridge, mountain woodcock... Which hunting dog enthusiast hasn’t dreamed of setting off in search of such rare, valuable and iconic game? From the eastern Pyrenees to north of the Alps, via the summits of Corsica, the shores of the Mediterranean and the hig...
Eysses, an epic tale of Resistance
October 1943. The Vichy government intensified its fight against the Résistance. The Eysses prison in the Lot-et-Garonne was selected to gather together all the resistance fighters arrested and sentenced by the Special Courts. Within days, 1200 prisoners had arrived at the centre.
Far from weakening...
Falconers: from the palace to the bell tower
In recent years, the job of falconer has really taken off! Assignments range from scaring gulls away from palaces to eliminating pigeons nesting in village bell-towers, the protection of crops, airports, nuclear power plants and football and rugby stadiums. Their quiet, flexible, fast and natural wo...
Father John Misty (SoirÉe de Poche)
At Soirées de Poche, we’re particularly fond of artists who can adapt to the situation and use their discomfort in a creative fashion. In this respect, Father John Misty is a leader in the field: for proof, just look at the way he’s broken with TV convention each time he’s appeared on the Letterman ...
