Les Presses Universitaires de France et Fremeaux & Associes proposent cette histoire des Femmes a Athenes, analysee et expliquee par Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, professeure d'histoire grecque ancienne a l'universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, specialiste d'histoire des femmes et du genre. Qui n'a pas deja son idee toute faite sur la situation des femmes de l'Antiquite grecque ? Les Atheniens - et les autres Grecs aussi, d'ailleurs - seraient forcement misogynes puisqu'ils sont reputes avoir exclu les femmes de leur cite. Ils les auraient releguees dans l'espace prive de la maison. Dans cet entretien, l'historienne interroge cette affirmation car la recherche recente, tant en sciences sociales et en sciences de l'Antiquite permet de reevaluer l'attitude des societes antiques envers les femmes et, plus generalement, les rapports que les femmes et les hommes entretenaient. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associes are offering this history of women in Athens, analysed and explained by Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and a specialist in the history of women and gender. Who doesn't already have a preconceived notion of the situation of women in Ancient Greece? The Athenians - and other Greeks too, for that matter - were inevitably misogynists, since they are reputed to have excluded women from their city. They relegated them to the private sphere of the home. In this interview, the historian questions this assertion, as recent research in both the social sciences and the sciences of antiquity is making it possible to reassess the attitude of ancient societies towards women and, more generally, the relationship between men and women. Audiobook. In French. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX]

(2-CD set) When Andre Gide published his Symphonie Pastorale, in 1919, he was already a major figure of French literature, a reference for the younger generation. This book is mostly composed with the supposed Diary of a Protestant Minister that discovers in his own heart confused sentiment for his adoptive daughter... Critic against a world based upon hypocrisy, lies and mysticism, Andre Gide knows everything about mankind's weakness and delivers his vision in this fascinating book.

It's Christmas Eve and everyone is busy with the preparations. But, preferring solitude to these happy holidays, Ebenezer Scrooge refuses the invitations. For this grumpy old man who everyone is careful to avoid, Christmas comes down to one simple word: "Foolishness!" But that night, Christmas spirits decide otherwise. Plunged in spite of himself between past, present and future, the old scrambler receives a lesson in life. This mythical, wonderfully sensitive tale gives Christmas all it's magic. "By a just, noble and legitimate distribution of the things of this world, if sickness and sadness are contagious, there is nothing that is communicated so irresistibly as laughter and good humor." Christmas Tales - Charles DICKENS

There is the father, Feodor Pavlovich, rich, dishonest and debauched, and his three legitimate sons: Mitia, impulsive, proud, savage; Yvan, intellectual, refined, intransigent; Alyosha, sincere, pious, naive. And then there is the illegitimate son, Smerdiakov, a cynical libertine living as a servant at his father's house. One of them will be parricide. A full and flamboyant novel, The Brothers Karamazov brings together a police intrigue, several love stories, dazzling theological and metaphysical presentations and unforgettable characters torn apart by their inner conflicts. Through a family, it is also the unvarnished picture of a Russia prey to doubt, torn in its moral and spiritual values by the advent of a materialistic modernity. No doubt the masterpiece of Dostoevsky.

“Here, together for the first time, we have two different musical environments that are typical of French West Indian traditions: music played with a clarinet and trombone in popular dances, and the music of family reunions, with a guitar and violin. In restoring these two styles to their glory, in 1973 the Guadeloupe producer Raymond Celini brought the best musicians into the studio.” Jean-Pierre MEUNIER

A 1 CD conference by Michel Onfray on Robert Combas, a French paintor an sculptor who is is widely recognized as a progenitor of the "figuration libre" movement.

This double album includes nine long natural concerts recorded at night in stereo, from different parts of the world (Provence, Dombes and Brittany in France and Elbe Island, Sardinia, the Danube Delta, Canada and Kenya). The author, composer Bernard Fort, let's time take it's course in his recordings, allowing the listener to really feel the beauty of nocturnal calm even after the recording is complete. Composer, musician, and musicologist Bernard Fort is the cofounder and has been director of the Groupe musiques vivantes de Lyon since 1976. From 1980 to 1990 he taught electroacoustic music at the Universite Lumiere Lyon, and since 1982 has taught acousmatic composition at the Ecole nationale de musique.

Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" is the most famous SCientific book from the 19th century, that set the foundation of evolutionary biology, with its process of natural selection. A 3 CD audiobook, in French.

Sagan, a woman of many words who has become a sulphurous and libertarian icon, is a figure of passion in political writing. Through 35 years of interviews, Sagan’s originality, beauty of language, and delicate immodesty is perfectly conveyed. Caroline Loeb, a 1980s musical star and theater actress, shares her heroine with a form of poetic and intellectual lasciviousness, guiding this dive into the secret garden of the writer where all of her work is presented against her memories, passions, and inspirations. The writer reveals herself, and Caroline Loeb lends her voice to the expression of her thoughts in this timeless testimony incarnated with two voices.

Loulou Boislaville (1919-2001) was a musical legend from the island of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean. As part of his work on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he led the Grands Ballets Martinique and the Groupe Folklorique Martiniquais. These two groups served a dual purpose of helping to preserve the island's rich traditional heritage as well as promoting tourism. In addition to his live performances and recordings, Boislaville's long and rich career included numerous appearances in movies, films and television. This collection of recordings from 1967-1973 features Boislaville leading the Groupe Folklorique Martiniquais in a selection of eighteen tracks of traditional Caribbean music.

French songs for children.

This is composer/singer Aurelie Claire Prost’s first musical project, and it was born at the musical crossroads where jazz meets slam and opera. She gave it the name AOURA, and the project brings together crossbreed forms of music in a daring encounter with her own compositions, mingling song, Gothic trance and opera with memorable titles like Lucifer, Dedale and Penthesilee. She offers her texts in pulsating, committed slams, creating aerial, mysterious rhythms and wild chases between harmony and mythology. Her album also includes some highly personal (re) arrangements of jazz standards, notably Wayne Shorter’s Mahjong: a surprising, incantatory version layered with verse from Charles Baudelaire’s Vampire, from Black Nile, and even John Coltrane’s Naïma in echo of Lord Byron’s recited poem. Didier LOCKWOOD The “Didier Lockwood Presents…” Collection: Three reasons make Didier Lockwood an unavoidable figure in music: first, he’s an eclectic musician, an impassioned visionary recognized by all; second, he’s also a producer, stimulating and revealing new talents; and third, as a teacher he shows heart and conviction. Didier Lockwood’s triple facets have moved this virtuoso violinist to create his own School of Music, the CMDL, and now his own label: Ames. AMES not only gives Didier a home for his own productions; it allows him to produce projects for other established jazz figures, like the young prodigies graduating from CMDL. The teams at Ames and Fremeaux Associes have joined to publish the “Didier Lockwood Presents…” collection, and make available to the public the various projects to which the artist is attached, completed by his work as a producer.

"Patrick & Steve Verbeke are more than the heirs to the entire North-American tradition; they’re craftsmen when it comes to contemporary portrayals of this human and artistic story, and they use the musical setting of the blues, not forgetting its scathing humour over life’s misfortunes, in an exceptional fusion that is resolutely French. A savoury conversation between father and son that not only serves the blues, but gives you the irresistible urge to listen to “tu m’as menti”, “la tangente” or “La p’tite cein ture” on repeat, time and time again." Benjamin GOLDENSTEIN

Classical Music

Already brought together on record by Franck Bergerot and Patrick Tandin in the days of Paris Musette, Daniel Colin (accordion, bandonuon) and Raul Barboza (accordion) have become vibrant legends on their instruments. The scope of this project and their frequent tours in Japan made them genuine ambassadors for a popular, alternative kind of French music. Produced by Dominique Cravic, founder of the Primitifs du Futur, Rencontre Paris is a cultural melting-pot where musette meets swing, tango and Amerindian music. It's a snapshot of a generous, popular culture that finds authenticity in roaming over the cobblestones of Montmartre or the Butte aux Cailles, and it succeeds in crossing oceans and time.