Agnes Obel and delicacy delight the Casino de Paris

 

The Danish singer Agnes Obel unveiled the sophisticated dreamlike melancholy and who lives his third album released last month, “Citizen of glass” on Tuesday night at the Casino de Paris, in a concert that offered beautiful chills.

“When I’m on stage, everything becomes different. I think of her, the public, to myself, fear of the wrong note, the obligation to sing well. All these things come upon me suddenly. The moment becomes an ordeal” […]

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Delacroix’s paintings of the Church of Saint-Sulpice visible again

After a two-year restoration campaign, cleaned the paintings of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) in the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris are again visible to the public, announced the City of Paris, the mayor Anne Hidalgo inaugurated Wednesday evening the end of construction. […]

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Marion Cotillard on global reaction to the US election: ‘Fear is winning’ 

Star of second world war thriller calls for artists to defend free speech, while her director Robert Zemeckis says the Trump years will be boon for TV and film industry.

“All the philosophers, thinkers and writers, who question themselves and the world, and who have the freedom of speech and freedom to express themselves, have to do it – for the ones who cannot.” […]

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French secularism: Anti-religious or safeguarding freedoms?

This week we take a closer look at France’s cherished state secularism. Laïcité [secularism], a product of French history and philosophy, is central to how France defines itself. But critics say it is anti-religious and increasingly used to stigmatise Muslims. Is laïcité compatible with a multicultural society?

We spoke to Jean-Louis Bianco, the President of the National Observatory on Secularism, to find out more. […]

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