Degas sculpteur raconté par lui-même

The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand years old; today's challenge is to integrate this heritage into contemporary life in a sustainable way. From the first. architecture has always aimed to adapt to the way of life of the society it serves, but few buildings have come down to us intact and as they were originally designed. Since the second half of the 19th century the speeding-up of history has increased the rhythm of change and has led to continual restructuring, extension and conversion. These changes have brought about the use of more and more innovative techniques, based on flexibility and reversibility, but the weight of materials, the time needed to implement these programmes, financial constraints and cultural compartmentalisation have deferred many of these projects and left us with a museum heritage frozen in time and quite unrelated to the original purpose of the buildings. What can be done with buildings looking for new use - a fortress without an army, a château without a lord. a workshop without an artisan, a factory without workers, or even an abbey without monks or a church without a congregation? The rise of a new national or international style or the creation of innovative techniques does not necessarily damage the integrity of a place. Modern techniques and materials, such as glass and steel, have a transparency, lightness, flexibility and reversibility that make them highly suitable for integrative undertakings. The examples presented in this book ail demonstrate a desire to be considered as "local" projects and to take their place in an evolutionary interpretation of history. Alter more than a century of conflicting debate on the subject of rehabilitation, it seems that the aims expressed in the Charter of Venice have borne fruit by giving rise to quality and personalised buildings that themselves are a contribution to this debate.

Le Grand Remplacement est à nos portes ! ", "La civilisation européenne est menacée ! ", "Le féminisme a proclamé la fin des hommes ! ", "Les valeurs de la nation sont bafouées ! "... Ce bref florilège serait risible par son absurdité s'il ne cachait pas des croyances bien réelles et une percée idéologique virulente, appelant à un nécessaire retour aux sources du "roman national". C'est donc à déjouer les pièges de cette fiction que s'emploie Elise Thiébaut. Elle s'interroge d'abord sur sa propre "identité" : qu'est-ce que l'histoire de cette Française dite "de souche" a-t-elle à nous dire de l'histoire de France ? En se livrant à des tests ADN, à des recherches généalogiques et archivistiques, elle pose des questions qui révèlent des tabous et impensés de la mémoire collective. Que nous apprend la génétique ? Quels sont les liens entre généalogie et patriarcat ? Quel impact la traite négrière et la colonisation ont-elles eu sur sa famille et plus largement sur son pays ? Quel rôle les cocottes et courtisanes du XIXe siècle ont-elles joué dans le mythe de la séduction à la française ? Avec un plaisir aigu et une vivacité pugnace, l'autrice livre une autobiographie de la France singulière comme antidote au roman national.