I recently read in Le Canard chained (who had read Le Figaro ) the following information: September 15, the crib Emile Zola Carpentras was débaptisée (to be renamed "The small cartons), because the name Zola demoralize staff, parents and even babies, or at least evoke a sense of misery, of unhappy children, which does not with the image of childlike joy that will give the nursery.
I find this information particularly shocking: not only focus the general atmosphere of his novels, the characters assimilate its worst, reflects a complete misunderstanding of the artist. For me, the name of Zola evokes one of the greatest French writers, but also a cultured man, near the modern painters of his day, and another man committed defending humanistic values that swung the Dreyfus affair.
Anyway, if you go there, although it should be renaming nurseries and schools, which are sometimes simply the name the street where they are situés.Tiens! The nursery has attended my daughter, "Nogent - De Gaulle". Although De Gaulle was an admirable man in some ways, I find the more humanistic values of Zola that his and most edifying for youth! And even "Nogent", which is the name of the city, is not neutral: it evokes the dance halls fortunately the Marne and the "little white wine you drink under the arbor, but not far from home, in Drancy, we would call a nursery named the city?
This pitiful story reminds me another one.
In my former college, it was hosted for over twenty years at the switchboard by the warm voice singing Claude Nougaro "Armstrong I am not black, I'm white skin ... "This changed the passage of Four Seasons by Vivaldi, always the same, that means the switchboard of most colleges! However, last year, was eliminated Nougaro pretext that it was very annoying, even offensive, for parents of black students, to be greeted by these words! It thus implied that Nougaro lyrics could be interpreted as racist. Again, it's something to be shocked for these words introduce a song that is rather a clear anti-racist and a tribute from a white artist with a black artist, Louis Armstrong ..
Both stories reflect my opinion something far more disturbing. Officials have bowed to pressure from parents or other ignorant people who believe that Zola was an alcoholic father or a child beaten like his characters and Nougaro was proud to be a racist white skin. However, yielding to these pressures and removing Émile Claude, was given due to these people. Of course everyone is not supposed to know the work of Zola and Nougaro but why not explain? We therefore prefer
in our country, due to the ignorant rather than educate them?
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