Ms. Simone Veil is the sixth woman to enter the French Academy. His election marks an important milestone in the history of the venerable house.
The French Academy is en route to its fourth centenary. It is with the College de France, the oldest institution in our old countries. For three centuries three quarters, in the midst of tragic events often and sometimes laughable, triumphs and disasters, the old lady at the Quai Conti has never ceased to elicit the most cruel sarcasm and the wildest ambitions.
In his irrésistible Journal, Jules Renard, who did Pasetti who belonged to rival clan of the Goncourt, offers a nice definition of academicians: "The common immortal." Paul Valéry, who was and whose election against Leon Berard, politician leader, former Minister of Education, the future ambassador Rome, and against Victor Berard, without kinship with Leon and great Hellenistic 's Special Odyssey, had caused a sensation in the literary and intellectual world of that time was only slightly less incisive: "The Academy is composed of the most skillful men without talent and the most naive men of talent." Jean Cocteau provided that Academicians were immortal for the duration of their lives and after their death they changed in a wheelchair.
The Academy is, par excellence, the guardian of traditions and rites. Founded in 1635 by Cardinal de Richelieu who wanted to keep on hand writers, poets, playwrights he feared turbulence and that he dreamed of being, it is responsible for ensuring the purity of the French language which Francis I had assured the prerogatives by the Edict of Villers-Cotterêts in 1539. Hence, his task today in a time of change and challenge, is difficult and necessary.
Two main stages chant the life of every impétrant known to wear green (which is dark blue with green embroidery): election and the reception. The reception of the new elected result in a ceremony whose media profile may be more or less. The speeches of Chateaubriand replacing Marie-Joseph Chénier, Mole receiving Vigny with condescension by Paul Valéry celebrating Anatole France, which he did not take action without his name remained famous. To emphasize the importance of the initiation rites of the tribe Quai Conti, the Academy whole is rising twice to greet each of its members at its private reception in the Chamber, the eve of his solemn reception in the Dome, and the announcement of his death. But the essence and the heart of the Academy, this is not the reception is the election of new members. Before each election, the secretary gives perpetual, with a little ceremony, reading of the rule which said that the reputation and dignity of the Academy depend on the choice of new members and requires former assured that their voice is free of any commitment suspect.
Ambassador of France, great writer filled with honors and international reputation, Paul Claudel, towards the end of his life, failed with attendance at meetings of the Academy. One day, however, it has voted to replace a deceased colleague and he finds pleasure with his friends who welcome warmly. At the end of the meeting, his voice mouthing, he whispers: "You should do this more often." The year 2008 has responded to the naive hope of the author of Soulier de Satin: One after seven academics have disappeared Causing almost uninterrupted string of elections.
Elections for the Academy are an inexhaustible source of jokes related to both the sorrow of disappearances and scruples of voting. A colleague who opened with Renan concerns that caused him morals efféminées the candidate Pierre Loti, the author of Prayer on the Acropolis replied: "Bah! We'll see ... "A defeated candidate complained of having been deceived by false promises of a holder of the green. "I gave him my word, fought it and would in my voice!" A definition of academic elections short on the Dome: "Before the elections are unpredictable, after that they are inexplicable."
Quai Conti is a land of contrasts and paradoxes. It is very serious and very gay. The tradition there, but it can be rushed. For nearly three hundred and fifty years, no woman has sat under the Dome. The settlement remained silent on the entry of women, but the tradition prohibited. Neither Ms. de Sevigne, or Madame de La Fayette, or George Sand, or Madame de Noailles were entered Quai Conti: there was no question of changing old habits.
The election of Marguerite Yourcenar in 1980 and received the following year had the effect of a thunderclap in the sky serene and a bit suffocating stood where the Dome. Four women were elected after Marguerite Yourcenar: Jacqueline de Romilly, venerated and tireless defender of Greek and literary studies, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, current perpetual secretary, Florence Delay, Assia Djebar. Simone Veil is not only strengthen the female contingent of the Academy, expected to strengthen further in the coming years, it is also under Coupole the example of courage and serenity before the tragedy of the modern world.
There are many homes up the Quai Conti. Writers, philosophers, historians and poets there alongside scientists, doctors, lawyers, ambassadors, politicians. It occupies on the language, knowledge, beauty, past and future. Laughter has its place, and curiosity and amazement and horror. With Simone Veil comes a witness to the cruelty of men and the evil that was so strong today. And a fighter for women's rights. And a pioneer of a Europe of reconciliation between peoples, justice and peace.
Simone Veil is one of those spent with a core of steel in the hell of the Holocaust. Few women have suffered with such dignity, so much suffering, so many attacks and insults. She gave the example of a vision continued with a height of mind and exceptional energy.
Thrown into the modern world, Ms. Simone Veil gives an image of these women of ancient times who united serenity at least an apparent indomitable. It is an icon of our times, one of those that have changed under torrents of insults, the condition of men - and women. She has known the substance of human suffering, and she dominated. The election of a great lady of our time honors the French Academy and moving it over the old institution like a breath of hope.
The French Academy is en route to its fourth centenary. It is with the College de France, the oldest institution in our old countries. For three centuries three quarters, in the midst of tragic events often and sometimes laughable, triumphs and disasters, the old lady at the Quai Conti has never ceased to elicit the most cruel sarcasm and the wildest ambitions.
In his irrésistible Journal, Jules Renard, who did Pasetti who belonged to rival clan of the Goncourt, offers a nice definition of academicians: "The common immortal." Paul Valéry, who was and whose election against Leon Berard, politician leader, former Minister of Education, the future ambassador Rome, and against Victor Berard, without kinship with Leon and great Hellenistic 's Special Odyssey, had caused a sensation in the literary and intellectual world of that time was only slightly less incisive: "The Academy is composed of the most skillful men without talent and the most naive men of talent." Jean Cocteau provided that Academicians were immortal for the duration of their lives and after their death they changed in a wheelchair.
The Academy is, par excellence, the guardian of traditions and rites. Founded in 1635 by Cardinal de Richelieu who wanted to keep on hand writers, poets, playwrights he feared turbulence and that he dreamed of being, it is responsible for ensuring the purity of the French language which Francis I had assured the prerogatives by the Edict of Villers-Cotterêts in 1539. Hence, his task today in a time of change and challenge, is difficult and necessary.
Two main stages chant the life of every impétrant known to wear green (which is dark blue with green embroidery): election and the reception. The reception of the new elected result in a ceremony whose media profile may be more or less. The speeches of Chateaubriand replacing Marie-Joseph Chénier, Mole receiving Vigny with condescension by Paul Valéry celebrating Anatole France, which he did not take action without his name remained famous. To emphasize the importance of the initiation rites of the tribe Quai Conti, the Academy whole is rising twice to greet each of its members at its private reception in the Chamber, the eve of his solemn reception in the Dome, and the announcement of his death. But the essence and the heart of the Academy, this is not the reception is the election of new members. Before each election, the secretary gives perpetual, with a little ceremony, reading of the rule which said that the reputation and dignity of the Academy depend on the choice of new members and requires former assured that their voice is free of any commitment suspect.
Ambassador of France, great writer filled with honors and international reputation, Paul Claudel, towards the end of his life, failed with attendance at meetings of the Academy. One day, however, it has voted to replace a deceased colleague and he finds pleasure with his friends who welcome warmly. At the end of the meeting, his voice mouthing, he whispers: "You should do this more often." The year 2008 has responded to the naive hope of the author of Soulier de Satin: One after seven academics have disappeared Causing almost uninterrupted string of elections.
Elections for the Academy are an inexhaustible source of jokes related to both the sorrow of disappearances and scruples of voting. A colleague who opened with Renan concerns that caused him morals efféminées the candidate Pierre Loti, the author of Prayer on the Acropolis replied: "Bah! We'll see ... "A defeated candidate complained of having been deceived by false promises of a holder of the green. "I gave him my word, fought it and would in my voice!" A definition of academic elections short on the Dome: "Before the elections are unpredictable, after that they are inexplicable."
Quai Conti is a land of contrasts and paradoxes. It is very serious and very gay. The tradition there, but it can be rushed. For nearly three hundred and fifty years, no woman has sat under the Dome. The settlement remained silent on the entry of women, but the tradition prohibited. Neither Ms. de Sevigne, or Madame de La Fayette, or George Sand, or Madame de Noailles were entered Quai Conti: there was no question of changing old habits.
The election of Marguerite Yourcenar in 1980 and received the following year had the effect of a thunderclap in the sky serene and a bit suffocating stood where the Dome. Four women were elected after Marguerite Yourcenar: Jacqueline de Romilly, venerated and tireless defender of Greek and literary studies, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, current perpetual secretary, Florence Delay, Assia Djebar. Simone Veil is not only strengthen the female contingent of the Academy, expected to strengthen further in the coming years, it is also under Coupole the example of courage and serenity before the tragedy of the modern world.
There are many homes up the Quai Conti. Writers, philosophers, historians and poets there alongside scientists, doctors, lawyers, ambassadors, politicians. It occupies on the language, knowledge, beauty, past and future. Laughter has its place, and curiosity and amazement and horror. With Simone Veil comes a witness to the cruelty of men and the evil that was so strong today. And a fighter for women's rights. And a pioneer of a Europe of reconciliation between peoples, justice and peace.
Simone Veil is one of those spent with a core of steel in the hell of the Holocaust. Few women have suffered with such dignity, so much suffering, so many attacks and insults. She gave the example of a vision continued with a height of mind and exceptional energy.
Thrown into the modern world, Ms. Simone Veil gives an image of these women of ancient times who united serenity at least an apparent indomitable. It is an icon of our times, one of those that have changed under torrents of insults, the condition of men - and women. She has known the substance of human suffering, and she dominated. The election of a great lady of our time honors the French Academy and moving it over the old institution like a breath of hope.
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