De Gaulle as Memorialist: War Story and Narrative War In brief Date - 7 November 2024Venue - French InstituteSpeaker - Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) Book your free ticket on the French Institute website About the eventInvited during the war by Admiral Sir Percy Noble to the operations room in Liverpool, General de Gaulle could only observe the numerically small part played by French forces in the vast military and communications undertaking led by the Allies. How could he make up for the initial deficit (“In France, there was no support and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor justification”) in terms of driving force, if not through the power of words? Memoirs can be a weapon: the one whose future lasts the longest.This talk with Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) is organised in collaboration with the Institut français d’Écosse, and the Department of Higher Education and Research from the French Embassy in the United Kingdom.About the speakerJean-Louis Jeannelle is a Professor of twentieth-century literature at Sorbonne University.In 2015, he published Cinémalraux (Hermann), an essay on the film work of André Malraux, and Films sans images (Éditions du Seuil, coll.“Poétique”), an account of the unrealised scenarios drawn from La Condition humaine.His previous works include Résistance du roman : genèse de ‘‘Non’’ d’André Malraux (CNRS Éditions, 2013) about an unfinished project of a novel about French Resistance, Écrire ses mémoires au XXe siècle : déclin et renouveau (Gallimard, 2008) and Malraux, mémoire et métamorphose (Gallimard, 2006).Recently, he published a critical edition of a dialogue about history by Charles Péguy entitled Clio (Flammarion, 2023) and Vies mémorables. Variations littéraires sur le genre des Mémoires de la Libération à nos jours (Hermann, 2024), which could be translated as: Memorable Lives. Literary variations on the genre of memoirs from the Liberation to the present day.How to attendThis event is free to attend, and open to all. Spaces can be reserved on the French Institute's website. Book your free ticket on the French Institute website Are you interested in postgraduate research in French?We supervise Masters by Research and PhD students with topics spanning the language, literatures and cultures of France and the many countries around the world in which French is spoken. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines, including Comparative Literature and Intermediality - the relationship between different art forms. Find out more about studying French at Edinburgh Nov 07 2024 18.00 - 19.00 De Gaulle as Memorialist: War Story and Narrative War An in-person talk by Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) on Charles de Gaulle's memoirs and observations of the French military force in the Second World War. Institut français d’Écosse West Parliament Square Edinburgh EH1 1RN Find the venue on Google Maps Book your free ticket on the French Institute website
De Gaulle as Memorialist: War Story and Narrative War In brief Date - 7 November 2024Venue - French InstituteSpeaker - Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) Book your free ticket on the French Institute website About the eventInvited during the war by Admiral Sir Percy Noble to the operations room in Liverpool, General de Gaulle could only observe the numerically small part played by French forces in the vast military and communications undertaking led by the Allies. How could he make up for the initial deficit (“In France, there was no support and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor justification”) in terms of driving force, if not through the power of words? Memoirs can be a weapon: the one whose future lasts the longest.This talk with Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) is organised in collaboration with the Institut français d’Écosse, and the Department of Higher Education and Research from the French Embassy in the United Kingdom.About the speakerJean-Louis Jeannelle is a Professor of twentieth-century literature at Sorbonne University.In 2015, he published Cinémalraux (Hermann), an essay on the film work of André Malraux, and Films sans images (Éditions du Seuil, coll.“Poétique”), an account of the unrealised scenarios drawn from La Condition humaine.His previous works include Résistance du roman : genèse de ‘‘Non’’ d’André Malraux (CNRS Éditions, 2013) about an unfinished project of a novel about French Resistance, Écrire ses mémoires au XXe siècle : déclin et renouveau (Gallimard, 2008) and Malraux, mémoire et métamorphose (Gallimard, 2006).Recently, he published a critical edition of a dialogue about history by Charles Péguy entitled Clio (Flammarion, 2023) and Vies mémorables. Variations littéraires sur le genre des Mémoires de la Libération à nos jours (Hermann, 2024), which could be translated as: Memorable Lives. Literary variations on the genre of memoirs from the Liberation to the present day.How to attendThis event is free to attend, and open to all. Spaces can be reserved on the French Institute's website. Book your free ticket on the French Institute website Are you interested in postgraduate research in French?We supervise Masters by Research and PhD students with topics spanning the language, literatures and cultures of France and the many countries around the world in which French is spoken. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines, including Comparative Literature and Intermediality - the relationship between different art forms. Find out more about studying French at Edinburgh Nov 07 2024 18.00 - 19.00 De Gaulle as Memorialist: War Story and Narrative War An in-person talk by Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) on Charles de Gaulle's memoirs and observations of the French military force in the Second World War. Institut français d’Écosse West Parliament Square Edinburgh EH1 1RN Find the venue on Google Maps Book your free ticket on the French Institute website
Nov 07 2024 18.00 - 19.00 De Gaulle as Memorialist: War Story and Narrative War An in-person talk by Professor Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Sorbonne University) on Charles de Gaulle's memoirs and observations of the French military force in the Second World War.
