Questa è la storia di un ragazzo che odia profondamente il calcio e adora appassionatamente la danza. Il coreografo franco-algerino Hervé Koubi offre a sette giovani ballerini autodidatti l'opportunità di mostrare il loro virtuosismo, tra hip-hop, street dance e danza contemporanea. Un pezzo che si scontra con i condizionamenti sociali relativi a una certa teoria di genere secondo la quale le ragazze cuciono, mentre i ragazzi giocano a calcio.

L'ECHANGE DES PRINCESSES - THOMAS CHANTAL - Interforum

SOUVENIRS DE LA MAREE BASSE - THOMAS CHANTAL - Interforum

Set in the French and Spanish courts of the eighteenth century, this novel is based on a true story about the fate of two young princesses caught in the intrigues and secrets of the moment

Philippe d’Orléans, the regent of France, has a gangrenous heart—the result of a life of debauchery, alcohol, power, and flattery. One morning in 1721, he decides to marry eleven-year-old Louis XV to the daughter of Philippe V of Spain, who is only four. Orléans hopes this will tie his kingdom to Spain. But were Louis to die without begetting an heir—the likeliness of which is greatly increased by having a child bride—Orléans himself would finally be king. Orléans tosses his own daughter into the bargain, the twelve-year-old Mlle de Montpensier, who will marry the Prince of Asturias, the heir to the Spanish throne.

The Spanish court enthusiastically agrees and arrangements are made. The two nations trade their princesses in a grand ceremony in 1722, making bonds that should end the historical conflict. Nothing turns out as expected.

It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and meticulously reconstructs July 14, 15, and 16 of 1789.

When Agathe-Sidonie is summoned to the Queen's side on the morning of the 14th, Versailles is a miniature universe, sparkling with every outward appearance of happiness and power, peopled with nobles of minutely calibrated rank, and run according to a hundred-year-old ritual called the Perfect Day. But with the shocking news that someone has woken the King in the night, order begins to disintegrate and word of the fall of the Bastille seeps into court. Soon Versailles's beauty is nothing more than a shell encasing rising panic and chaos. Agathe-Sidonie watches as the Queen's attempts to flee are aborted; her most intimate friend betrays her; and the King, appearing to sleepwalk through this crisis, never alters his routine of visiting the Apollo Salon several times a day to consult a giant crystal thermometer.

From the tiniest garret to the Hall of Mirrors, where Marie-Antoinette stands alone and terrified in the dark, Chantal Thomas shows us a world on the edge of oblivion and an intimate portrait of the woman who, like 'fire in motion,' was its center.

Partendo dal presupposto che la libertà, di fatto, non esiste, in quanto l'uomo sarebbe soggiogato psicologicamente da forze misteriose che sfuggono al suo controllo, l'autrice fa riflettere su questo bene prezioso, al quale ogni uomo anela ma che di fatto non possiede mai, nemmeno quando è sicuro di averlo. I concetti di libertà legati al non dover rendere conto, all'arte di viaggiare, di spostarsi, di passeggiare in solitudine, di distaccarsi dalle cose, sono visti come atti di grande libertà del singolo che osannano la scelta di Nietzsche che a soli 34 anni decide di abbandonare tutto per vivere una vita errante nella più completa libertà di pensiero e azione.

In The Wicked Queen, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France as the bride of Louis XVI in 1771, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien other. Marie-Antoinette's mythification, argues Thomas, must be interpreted as the misogynist demonization of women's power and authority in revolutionary France.In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.