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Operation Mani pulite "

Every week when I collect my pack to go over and I grab my new Best Friend Forever, I Velleda my marker (which I already had to change once, taking the XL model, which does not fit in my kit, but should last longer, I hope) I solemnly swear that today I leave there with hands nickel.

Markers are a girl's best friends!

What I mean everybody knows the chalk, small airborne particles that will whiten in a jiffy, and everyone has at least one anecdote of the teacher who, forgetting that his hands were covered, hit any point on its anatomy (as a rule, her posterior), leaving the same sudden trace of a magnificent hand quite suggestive and triggering the hilarity every time he turned to go to the board.

The whiteboard marker Velleda was supposed to fix that. Mistake, at least in my case. I do not know how I'm doing, but I always find myself at the end of class in the hands of a minor, a very becoming black, which means that, at this moment, I hesitate even to protect them from cold by burying them in the pockets of my big coat or put on my gorgeous red gloves.

thing I discovered to my second course, when, after a particularly lively session on "So, what would you have written instead of the journalist on that movie?", looking with satisfaction my students leave the room slowly, I rose (I'm still standing course, for those of lower ranks do not get off so easily, but I tend to lean to lean on the desktop) and noticed with some horror, mingled with astonishment that I had left it two magnificent marks black hands, perfectly clear. Turning his gaze to the heads, I could see that they were, indeed, all that was most disgusting. And yet, I did not feel like much writing on the blackboard during these two hours there.

Since then, I'm repeating myself "today mani pulite " loop like a mantra during the three hours before my classes, one second pause when I get hold of marker and hang like a damned the eraser, half past one or two hours later, the result is always the same: yuck.

It must be said that an accident is so fast arrived! You write a word, you forget an "s", a leg in an "m" you pass your sentence in the singular and, by reflex, first write a "-ent" at the end of the verb and wham! without thinking, you use your zolies mimine to clear before grinding. It's quick, easy and it requires a minimum mental effort.

Yeah. Except that little small correction after correction, your paws also become quite nasty if you did not have them washed the week. A bit annoying, besides the quite nasty in question, then sticks everywhere on the desktop where you rely, therefore, but also on your course, leaves you challenge your students at the end of the session, the switch, the door handle, the book you read in the RER, etc..

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two options open to me so now: either I'm getting amputated both hands to make me graft instead Velleda two markers (or marker and eraser, your choice), but it might be a bit complicated for my then living off the course (because I try to have a life outside of my classes, contrary to what seems to think my students, who send me their stories at any time of day and night, Saturday and Sunday included), or I bump by wearing latex gloves, but then they already take me for a defect of Punctuation seeking to confine them in the classroom to prevent them from escaping , it does not settle my case. Although, if it can encourage them to make me their stories and their comments made in due time, all things considered, it might be interesting ...

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This is not to my pub, but next Friday, from 14h to 17h, I'll be at the forum on opportunities for commercial and literary prépas organized by the school e Pothier Orleans. My old school, whatever. One from which I joined.

Officially, I will represent the ENS and the die classics, but if there is no representative, I can also do Nanterre. Even the Sorbonne (trying not to break too, I promise - you know my intellectual honesty).

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" Andromache "in the French Comedy Theatre in Antiquity

Last Friday, I went with friends, the" Andromache " from Racine to the French Comedy . In view of critics, the World (too old so I can get you the link, sorry) like Pierre Assouline (whose title continues to plunge into an abyss of perplexity), it was double or nothing: either you loved it and hung, or they remained stranded and the two hours without intermission seemed very, very long.

In my case, I was rather between the two: I generally liked, but the choice of staging that have made me also periodically called upon to lift his eyes to heaven, sighing annoyance.

start with the positives: the decor is minimal, leaving room for any words of Racine, and that's pretty successful. Indeed, the text is more than enough, and when we decide to do in the ancient classical (columns, curtains), it is best not to overdo it, otherwise fall into the kitsch peplum ".

The music in the background I was not bothered either: it was not too strong, but besides that it does not go very far when we know what can be music contemporary classical today (but hey, I may not be very objective about it), because it was more or less the same sequence looping, I ended up wondering what she could serve. That said, why not.

In fact, the problem of this piece, it is not the archiclassicisme sets and costumes, but the choice of interpretation and diction.

I am not against the diction "Racine" ("what we imagine Racine" is more accurate) of pronouncing the text in some hieratic and solemn. After all, there has something solemn in the plays of Racine, which is that his characters are not the same attitude as those of Corneille.

But, it does was not necessary: 1) start to scream suddenly, without cause, 2) periodically take a hoarse voice halfway between Grendizer and Darth Vader. Friday evening, from my point of view (I may have a sharp tongue), Clément Hervieu-Léger (Orestes) and Eric Ruf (Pyrrhus) completely missed their entry because of it.

Moreover, the problem of the diction is that if one is not very good, it's horrible whenever Aurelien Recoing (Phoenix, confidant of Pyrrhus) Suliana and Brahim (Cleone, confidante Hermione) opened their mouths, I could not help but sigh and it was frankly impossible to be worse, although I admit that during the story by Cleone the arrival of Pyrrhus and Andromache in the temple, it was significantly improved for a minute or two.

Last confidante, Celine Samie (Cephisus), was she, not bad, but I wonder if this is not especially compared with the character Main accompanies it, Andromache (Cecile Brune): take a log, put him in Greek dress and you have the character we've seen evolve on stage Friday night.

One of my friends' m rightly noted that it changed the Andromache weeping mothers that we normally used. Certainly. And I recognize that the complete representation petrified in its sorrow over Pirro is not a bad idea. But finally, when it is not there, was it necessary to make it as devoid of expression and feeling? "O-my-son-o-my-father": a machine even pronounce the better. Even the famous description of the capture of Troy, a perfect example of hypotyposis (ie description so vivid that you feel you really have it in front), is completely missed: it leaves us as cold a recitation shopping list.

In truth, the real protagonist of this piece as it is put stage here is Hermione. Leonie Simaga is simply excellent: it makes it soft diction Racine, supports his character as ever and proves very clearly above all its partners, including an experienced player and he also usually excellent as Eric Ruf. ;

In short, if I had one suggestion for the French Comedy, it would drop "Andromache" and to rename their room "Hermione". This is only fair and there would be less fraud on the "goods".

In terms of going to see it or not, I leave you free to decide in the light of my report (as usual) because I can not advise you or discourage you. It's up to you !

(Last visit Hector to his wife Andromache and her son Astyanax, column krater Apulian red-figure, dated c. 370-360 BC. J.-C ., found in Ruvo, and kept at the National Palace Museum Jatta in Ruvo di Puglia (Bari province), Italy photo by Jastrow, source: Wikipedia Commons)

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Until ten years, the peplum seemed a kind exceeded, a closed chapter in cinema history. But since Gladiator director Ridley Scott in 2000, reappeared in the ancient theater, often in the form of American blockbusters.

The return of epic films

If you did a Latin or Greek, or even if you have been entitled to a history lesson on ancient Greco-Roman at the college or high school there are chances that you have been entitled to any of the chestnut classroom activities: the projection Peplum.

Péplum The projection in general is an attempt by one or more teachers of good will, they are summoned to appear active and dynamic ® ™, make it interesting for a course on ancient inevitably suspect asleep students (under the wisdom of wisdom, one of the equations is "old = boring"). The maneuver is therefore to bring a class or two in a room, in front of a television to watch a movie (or at least excerpts of a movie), assumed to enliven their daily manuals and handouts. And what film project for students when it comes to antiquity? A peplum, of course.

The Last Days of Pompeii , Sergio Leone, 1959 (Source: English Wikipedia ).

Problem: in the eyes of past generations, the epic films of the last century were quick to sound corny - in fact they were already old-fashioned at the end of that century, at which time yours truly was using his rear pants pockets on chairs a college (which does younger person). Several reasons This severe sentence. The natural aging of any artistic work is the first: any details beasts, like the haircut of the actors or the role of women in the plot, may raise a smile for generations. The choice of film, then, can be tricky: the peplum was a very fruitful relationship between gender, with a ladle, the years 1950 and 1980, and, of course, it has not only produced masterpieces lumber. As long as the film in question is served by a clumsy execution and / or a small budget, the short session for disaster.

Which brings us to the last element, which is quick to give the final blow to any peplum having the misfortune to be a little old: special effects. Few things age faster than in film special effects (even haircuts seem modern side), and some elements have a devastating effect most dramatically on the benevolence of the beholder. Even the wonderful animated sequences frame by frame of the famous filmmaker Ray Harryhausen special effects are not immune to the ravages of years. And how not to chuckle before other strings otherwise less elegant: plastic armor, giant boulders cardboard elasticity suspicious athletes pangratiast fierce struggle to fluff pretending to be real beasts ... Measured by this yardstick, the most honest peplum exposed to be relegated to the land of nanars under severe criticism from viewers. Goodbye new media driving the rescue of a presupposed ancient mummified: cinema itself gathering dust too fast! What, alas, what to do?

While interest in antiquity never really stopped, there was a good time (since roughly the early 1980s) that the film did more risky to large scale productions of Ben Hur William Wyler (1959) or Clash of the Titans Desmond Davis (1981). But to the delight of Antique world, the millennium seems to have coincided with a revival of the genre, mostly on the side of U.S. blockbusters, the industry is yet unwilling to take risks.

What causes this revival? In a first attempt conclusive Gladiator Ridley Scott, in 2000, whose success has encouraged the studios, if not to read the classical works, at least to put the nose into their archives and wonder how to restore a sudden the kind of young that had their heyday a few decades earlier. Since Gladiator, films about ancient are again more numerous: Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004), Alexander (Oliver Stone, the same year), 300 (Zack Snyder, 2007), Agora (Alejandro Amenábar, 2009), Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier, 2010) or Centurion (Neil Marshall, the same year: Lina you were talking here), to mention only the most significant . Gone are the outdated special effects, instead of computer generated images and 3D.

These new epic films are present on posters in subway corridors, on the sides of buses, we talk in the media, and luck, sometimes we invite a historian to say a few words about the subject. For us young Antique world is a pleasure and an opportunity: not only it's interesting to see what the creators of these films, but also a (good) reason to speak of antiquity, Greek, Latin or otherwise, with a wider audience.

300 Zacky Snyder from Frank Miller (2007): Spartan hoplites facing hordes of Persian Immortals samurai-like backdrop of electric guitar. Reassure us: after a while, you end up necessarily suspecting that some things were not in Herodotus. (Image source: post on the official movie site .)

Criticism is Theseus ... and art is minotaur. How to watch Neo-peplum?

New problem: a film is not a history textbook or a course, or an illustration of an ancient text. It first ... a film that is to say a creation developed by a director in a very variable, depending on multiple constraints. Under the broad term of "peplum" I use here, camouflage themselves made all kinds of possible approaches to the ancient theater. On the dozen big films released since Gladiator not evoke antiquity in the same way as others. And for good reason: each was made according to a different aesthetic, belonging to a particular genre.

Facing these new visions of antiquity to the movies, an attitude all too common, sometimes in Antique world themselves (when they are not subject specialists, such as Claude Aziza, who no mistake not), is to watch a movie fresh out the eye, the other a history book, and play the game with seven errors of the eyebrow Zeus days of relentless storms. That date was incorrect, that detail does not match, that character has never acted this way, as decoration or armor is no time ... and now our developers changed into bad students, wearing their caps and all of dunce caps. Worse, they are accused of inducing error in the crowds, maintain a false vision of antiquity, instead of taking advantage of their privileged position of Artist in Wide Audience to investigate their world. "For once we are talking about the old stuff seems to say, it could at least be educational ! "

These criticisms are not entirely wrong: it is sometimes amazing to see how the ancient material, whether historical, mythological or otherwise, may be marred by some lazy blockbusters, despite the enormous potential it represents for any filmmaker. Yes ... but it should not be limited to criticism of this type, for three simple reasons:

- A movie not a documentary : it is not intended to tell the history, but foremost a history. A comparison term term in such detail as the film and historical truth can only be justified for a very special kind - the film history (and again). However, the majority of recent films about ancient are not like that. You can not judge a film's aesthetic program until it develops, or, in other words, gender or specific sub-genre which he claims. Ignoring this fact in a review would look at statistics on demography in the French novels of Balzac: it would be absurd. Zack Snyder's film 300 (released in 2007), for example, has beautiful inspiration from the battle of Marathon, he never claimed to reflect any historical truth: it is primarily a film adaptation of comic the same name published in 1998 by Frank Miller, a graphic novel which is influenced by the codes of superhero stories .

- On a broader scale, it must be remembered aesthetic language specific to cinema as an art (or cradle, if you prefer). You can not put it in the cinema the same way as in a literary or academic writing. And any film critic a little wise will tell you that in the case of adaptations literary works in film, for example, treachery well done, can yield a more friendly spirit of the work that most slavish adaptation. We can not fault the film Troy by Wolfgang Petersen (released in 2004) not to reproduce any such content twenty-four cantos of the Iliad , just as one can not reject as errors or betrayals of the new episodes invented by the film without first asking why the writers saw fit to introduce them into the story (it does not mean we can not do much more to blame this film but I talk about later).

- At a broader level still, we must keep in mind that a film is never created in the abstract, but it coincides with a time (in this case ours) that his imagination, his methods and his own concerns. The choice to devote a movie about this or that old is not innocent, but much depends representations associated with this subject and / or it may establish pretext indirectly to discuss such other matters of interest to the artist and his audience today. To take an example from the classical epics, where, in one of the first scenes of Ben Hur , Ben Hur, Jewish prince, finds his old friend Messala, now an officer in the Roman army, who explains that with aplomb ' must absolutely collaborate with the Romans occupying Judea its native state under penalty of all his people to "extinction," should not look far to realize that the film takes a clear vision of the Roman Empire, which approaches the Nazi totalitarianism in the time of the Second World War. Similarly, the film Agora Alejandro Amenábar (2009) is not a biography of Hypatia, a philosopher and mathematician of the third century, or rather he is not only that: it is also, even primarily, a reflection on religious extremism, fully engaged with the issues politico-religious world today.

These truths may seem self-evident, and even better if it does, but it is amazing how simplistic the problem "truth or lie? "Still influences some judgments about what type of movie.

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The Perseus of Benvenuto Cellini (1554, now the Piazza della Signoria in Florence - source: Wikipedia English ), poster film Clash of the Titans Desmond Davis (1981, source: Screenrush ) and displays his Greek remake in 2010 by Louis Leterrier. It's crazy, Perseus is always the head of the Gorgon in the same way ...

"But then you say maybe, such a conception of criticism is like leaving card white filmmakers to tell all the nonsense they want about antiquity. What will be the projection Péplum we talked about earlier? Should we give up? "

No, of course, quite the contrary. For, as in all areas, namely inequalities lead to inequalities among the spectators. Everyone is not armed in the same way to watch a peplum. An antiquarian, who knows his subject will recognize where the film takes liberties with history and with a step back and goodwill, will evaluate the benefits these differences and when these inventions have one. A student of Image Arts, meanwhile, will be better informed about the pictorial language specific to different genres, and with any luck, know quite well the history of the peplum genre to recognize the times and Movie allusions. But a non-specialist comprehensive risk missing out on many things.

Hence the temptation misnomer, want to play the film-a role that is not theirs, that designers of educational tools : We fear that works of fiction, involved in too complex "truth" ultimately mislead the least sophisticated viewers. But this is not the filmmaker to play this role is the teacher - or, more accurately, many more people than this: the designers of curricula, first, because teachers are required comply with the programs, but also in other areas, teachers and researchers (historians, Latin, Hellenistic, archaeologists, etc..), both in their research and teaching university in their work with extension the general public. This is an ongoing dialogue between the arts and waited and knowledge within a company. And most importantly, it is a finding of a high commonplace to recall how the art of the image are important in today's societies (they held an equally great in ancient societies, elsewhere: let us to believe that the ancients had only text, there is nothing further from the truth!). It is therefore important to stay in school environment, that students are introduced to the reading of images, as they should be ahead of the texts.

Few complaints to make about this, it seems, on the side of national education: these issues are slowly entering the curriculum of secondary schools, and cinema studies in universities spread. It seems, however, very few researchers have engaged in a detailed study of this new vogue for old movies. The specialists of the subject are rare (the best known and most visible in the media is Claude Aziza, but no researcher can cover by itself an entire field of research!). The Anglo-Saxon researchers, however, seem to have taken this train, since during my walks in search of virtual reference, the only books and academic articles that I found about this new epic films, apart from those of Aziza, appeared in English publications.

must say that exercise is not easy, since we want to do things a little good: Besides a solid formation of antiquarian, this requires knowledge of at least the basics of education picture, to analyze appropriately the script, editing, framing, light, correspondence between music and image ... But large gap is worth it. And if one thinks in terms of education, it can also, in a broader perspective, provide an opening to a reflection on the representation of ancient images in general, throughout the long history going to Greece and ancient Rome to our cinemas, through the ancient art of the image (painting, ceramics, sculpture, architectural complexes), the medieval representations (think of these illuminations where combatants of war Trojan are represented in medieval armor, as if we represented Achilles lattice brandishing a machine gun) and the paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance and modern times (the current exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay on the representation of history by the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme firefighter is a good example of the opportunities to reflect on the image). The revival of

peplum is not only the evidence that ancient still interested (for those who think otherwise), it is not only a way for the antiquarian to bring up to date or appear "fashionable" to better attract and retain students ... It's also the perfect opportunity to put all these recent works in their context, broadly defined, taking the necessary step back - say 2000 or 3000 years - to discover or rediscover the importance and the incredible wealth classical subjects in the figurative arts. And show everyone the dramatic continuity and abundant running from these early times until our own, through a slow evolution with multiple ramifications.

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What legitimacy to exist for ENS? (3) What

The wage issue normaliens.

The rationale for the salary paid to the ENS has therefore just what they are supposed to be the best: the Republic finance the studies of his best students, and part-cons, they agree to work ten years for her. Normal.

The egalitarian (and I call those who, rightly, would like all French students are treated the same criteria) would agree that if any one was absolutely sure that ENS are the best French students.

We have seen that this is not necessarily the case. First, although we are generally among the best, we are not absolutely the best and not have built does not, fortunately we can not take part. Then there are always people who either never hear about ENS and prepared or do not support it and leave even before the real fun begin: I came second to the first level control Latin, Hypokhâgne: the first was not even there to retrieve his copy: it was gone after one week.

This raises the question of informing pupils and students on the existence of PERs and the ENS and, therefore, the ambition we have for them: do not be silent because that it is estimated they will not succeed, but talk to them and let them make their own choices, while being clear on their level, if not, either, seeing them engage in a siding.

Finally, is it a problem not to ENS?

can also wonder if it really is a problem not to be passed by ENS. If you want to do research, it is undoubtedly harder: One can say many things at the school, but we can not deny the huge "boost" that represent a catalyst, its status Great School and its reputation, the scholarships it distributes and the facilities it offers to entertain people and make themselves known to them (it is easier to dare contact a U.S. researcher intervene when we see regularly in his department). Of course this does not mean there is no good research out of the ENS, fortunately.

There is no denying, either, that his preparations various aggregations are either the best or among the best.

But in other cases, it is not fenced sure we need to attempt to integrate, even to a class Preparatory.

This means that the system does not fund the ENS a part of university courses (in addition to not fund a portion of their students) and must therefore also that the best students from other disciplines can also be delivered by the state. It is quite correct that there are scholarships based on income, it seems it is also necessary that there be at hand, merit scholarships, based on the results (with still some consideration of income: it is not just a student, even excellent, super financed by income parents off, receive a scholarship "pocket money").

moral problem associated

It is indeed quite unbearable to consider that the university would be "reserved" to "bad". I will not dwell on the fact that it is not true of students, it seems to have already developed. So I would add "only" this is not the case for teachers: as students, some of the teachers is composed of former ENS, others to be where they are, have distinguished themselves also, for their excellence: let's be clear, even if everyone has an example in mind, myself included, rarely become ill college professor.

After, this does not mean that 'they will be excellent teachers: the meaning of pedagogy, it was or not, we can learn it in part but love teaching, it is basically a matter of taste. It is not always easy to end up before a room full of students, preparing lessons is time consuming and sometimes rather desperate need to correct some forty comments corrected in two weeks requires a good dose of self-motivation ("I the sacred fire, the fire I, I ...").

That said, I find it quite normal and even necessary, the dual role of teacher-researcher. The university is a place of transmission between research and made to inform students of its past advanced. The university is also a place thought: there are many ideas on his own field of research even prepared lessons that are quite far away (after I pulled the hair on my course in French literature nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I then realized that it put me in contact with a number of concepts that can absolutely be part of my thesis project). Finally, the university is a place of exchange : while the teacher delivers instruction, but students are (usually) not passive either; also have ideas and, above all, see things with fresh eyes.

In short and to return to the subject, the university is far from the hideout of the "bad", whether teachers or students, and should, also, to fund his best students.

(Concluded next time)

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legitimacy to exist for ENS? (2) What

The issue of training.

Normal To enter, you must be a preparatory class, which means that the ENS does not pass through the first two years of college. That said, this does not mean that the ENS does not go through college at all : School does not award diplomas, which means that we must at least be enrolled in a university (for scientists) and also to monitor the progress (for literature). It is therefore wrong to say that we are totally alien to the university: it is in his background that we make our two-year Master (+ sometimes the last license year) and our thesis that there is Professor who heads our research, we work here after school. We are part of the university, the difference with other students is that we also follow other courses elsewhere, which, in the third year degree, results in an insane schedule, even by removing the current "double".

Here we are confronted with different levels with students who have done that in college . This is not true in all subjects, but to give you an idea, L3 classics, I found myself with people who were still in the BA-BA in Greek, or who were totally unable to translate a basic text in this language - as they were trying to finish their license: it was therefore at least the third year they were Greek. You will understand why I deserted to follow the course equivalent in Ulm: I honestly feel that wasting my time, or even worse, losing my level (which was not quite true, because the versions were when even corrected fairly "dry").

As a first very basic, ie, leaving for the moment, ENS outside the table, this raises the question of the level required for college from one year to another, arriving third-year classics without knowing even the most elementary rules of Greek grammar seems totally unacceptable, both for the university and said die, more importantly, for students, which was allowed to go straight into the wall honking.

"Yes, but you might say, given the few students in classics, if they are being fired because they did not level it will really end up with three peeled and shaved ! The problem of classical literature is another matter, he would undoubtedly good deal here too long: all I will say for now is that it seems to me that allowing a student who has very clearly not continue through the level third year is totally unacceptable.

So two things: either one considers that the problem is him and he says he is not in its interest to continue in this way (after all, the advantage of college is that there are many opportunities for diversion), or we consider that the problem is we are reviewing our requirements and meet our students and the education we deliver them (you saw? think I already as teacher is wonderful).

However, even in sectors where the level of requirement is really ok, the ENS and former préparationnaires (because, compared to students who have made the college, ex-préparationnaires must also come into account - it's not just the ENS, in life!) proved best and frankly what they are mostly found in the aggregation and received the best ranks among the Caps received (which does not mean that others have no chance to be as well, fortunately).

From my point of view, it is a question of method: the training received in prep school is very focused on the methodology, with exercises and frequent. They may say there is nothing more effective to integrate the rules of the essay and the text commentary (I Leaving aside the intrinsic necessity of becoming more or less a workhorse dubbed a genius for organization, makes you laugh gently when you give then a month to make a point). In college, the exercises are fewer (to give you an idea, my students need me a comment made at the end of the month in preparation, I'd already made two and the third is on the way) and the methodology clearly less hammered, judging, after the difficulties experienced by students to organize their work.

What college is less "psycho" as the preparation no problem: after all, why not? Nobody is obliged to follow the paths canonically formatted to think for yourself and do something good (it is one of the advantages of prépas provincial over prépas Paris: think different, guys!). Nevertheless, we must still be built a certain way to get there and what is often lacking in students (for reasons of convenience, I call now "students" who have studied that in college, he should not however forget that ex-préparationnaires and ENS are also of students): they are not as good in themselves, they often struggle to organize their thinking to make it go further.

can now wonder if they would be better if they knew it. In my opinion, yes: the good and even better would have the same weapons as the others, the poor are the least ill have other problems (or the same, but at least in terms of organize their thoughts, they would know how they should ideally be). You might say: "Yes, but the best are not in college, they are in prep school!". This is probably partly true, but what I know, myself, is that the freshmen that I have before me right now are just as good as Hypokhâgne and they are not prepared, meaning that the university has immense potential and affirm that only one is going bad absolutely false.

Another problem: think different is good, but if you want to spend the contest or other education is mainly on your ability to conform to a mold that will judge you ( not only do something original leads necessarily a failure, but let's be clear: the aggregation, it is not at all what is expected of you). Gold this mold is education as it is issued in prep school, it is considered good or not, this raises problems for students, starting with a handicap.

It is therefore understandable that the former ENS and préparationnaires students do better than "short" since they have integrated a moment on what we know was going to try and comply. After that the ENS often prove better than the former préparationnaires (but not all the time and, above all, not necessarily: to integrate, it must be good enough everywhere, which means that if you are good in Latin, but no one in history and philosophy, you will not integrate, but if you continue to study Latin literature, there are good chances that you're as good as people who have built: so do no complex) is explained easily enough: the fact that they have already integrated means that at one point they were better than them, and then the level of the courses at the ENS remains high and the preparation is good, they enjoy other advantages. I might also add that there are people who are "facts" for the contest (there are even nutcases who can not live if they have no competition to pass) and people who are not made for that. A friend of mine was told that the aggregation was like a marriage: that it works, it takes two, it's a little idea.

Now this question of being better than others is crucial, because this is what justifies and légimitise the salary they pay us.

To be continued ...

(I'm sorry, but all this took me even longer than expected, I'm afraid I can not continue when pensions Italy, ie from next Monday .. .)

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legitimacy to exist for ENS? (1)

I made a lengthy and reasoned response to a comment obviously very upset against "pampering" normaliens , but I think it deserves a longer development than 4000 characters, even splitting into two parts. The issue seems to me entirely fair: what is the legitimacy of the ENS to exist?

Subject-river, which will take several posts, so as not to impose a lengthy development: not excellent Master Eolas wants. I publish therefore first today, then the other two with an interval of two days each time, not that I'm trying to "subtly" spread the messages to support the attendance of this blog, but simply that I'm leaving tomorrow Italy for a little less than a week and I can not immediately respond to comments.

But, since each message will have a thematic unit (now a little history and then Relations between the ENS and the University and finally a larger question about the university and the French school system - yes, I know, I do not fly the elbow !), You will not have to wait for the reasoning for comment.

Once back, I'll put links between messages, the way of what I did for my translation of an article by AJ Woodman .

Here lets go.

Blame the Ecole Normale Superieure

often blamed for the Grandes Ecoles to form parallel university systems that have therefore relatively little reason to be, since there are already in college and could or should be quite sufficient. In an egalitarian vision (which, I must admit, I like a lot) where everyone would go through college and would be proven, they appear in fact as a symbol of insufferable elitism, which does not deign s lowering up study on the same benches as "populist" (one of the few expressions trigger in me a tremendous desire to hit the person who comes to pronounce it). This is the famous "school which says normal and feels superior" Paul Nizan (oh no! Not Sartre!), Himself Normale elsewhere.

Let's start with a brief history on why it was created.

the beginning was the teacher of teachers.

Initially, the ENS has been created to train teachers who would form ... teachers.

Let me explain: before, to be a teacher at all, you spend the assistance of the Normal School of Teachers (which later became the IUFM and now that it's supposed to have disappeared, I do not know what it's called), if you were accepted, it was a sacred social promotion for students in good working and middle classes in school, even over the certificate of studies.

But the question arose of who was going to train these future Instits? He was Teacher of teachers, so we created the Ecole Normale Superior (who was so superior because it was located above the Normal School for short). Of course, this summary is very fast: in the corner where a historian who wants to make a more detailed discussion, it is welcome.

was entered on the school competition, which, I repeat, is, whatever one thinks of the Republican principle of meritocracy: it is the best at the end of the ordeal that integrate and not those relationships (as might be the case with a recruitment desk: you take the boys, the son of ..., etc.).. Whether you are the son of working-class or aristocratic, if you're good, you have the same opportunities to enter than any other candidate, no more, no less (do not start screaming, we're here in the theory ; we will then discuss the veracity of this principle in practice).

Once you had entered, the state considered (and still believes) that you represent the elite of the school system and, therefore, you pay in exchange for a pledge to pay back for ten years, working for it or by refunding all monies collected (that is what I presented here ).

Later developments.

Then what happened is that the "Teacher Teacher" being increasingly driven to officiate at the university, especially as there were the teachers of middle and high school to form, the number of ENS were divided between those destined to secondary education and those who decided to do research and teach in college. Needless to deny: today, most of us choose the university and is a teaching to do research that we issued. Suddenly, the SLA began to truly represent a "competitor" of the university to train members of the elite Republican in general, and future researchers in particular.

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Joy, happiness and strength!

Joy, joy, tears of joy! I'm in nirvana, the weather is wonderful, the sun is shining, the weather is nice, it's hot, a gentle breeze caresses my face, the air is filled with a delicate fragrance, flowers decorate my visual field touches colorful birds sing a harmonious melody, I love, I love, I'm universal compassion!

No, I'm not from smoking around the best of my herb stock dealer :

I COME TO SIGN MY DOCTORAL CONTRACT BY JUPITER!!

Basically, you know what that means? I'll be able to: 1) register administratively, 2) pro activate my email address, 3) send a copy of the contract to the National Education for my three years of supervised work well I validate my aggregation, 4) and last but (very) not least

I WILL FINALLY BEGIN TO BE PAID!!

It's still over two months since I live on my reserves now, with a real rent, real bills and the whole shebang, then they owe me something 3200 euros as from the time. So I went to hit the jackpot at the end of the month (well, if ENS hurry to send them a certificate of default)!! Christmas, Christmas!!

that, I'll leave you. I'll put on my frock and orange merrily down the street, bareheaded, to make my own demo 'to me and spreading flowers everywhere on my way to Republic. I am a flower, I am sunshine, I love the rain, like a gray November in Paris!

( Carrying flowers, a procession of Tibetan Buddhist monks are Bodhisattva Day In The Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism Tharlam, Courtyard, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal; photo taken on 07/09/2007 by Wonderlane; source: Flickr)

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To register or not to register? New contributor

Like every year at about the same time, I received a small envelope of association of students and alumni of the ENS (now called "A 'Ulm" instead of "AAEENS" - Alumni Association of the ENS - which is a significant improvement from my point of view, and also includes the "friends" of the ENS that is to say those who have no direct link with us, but who would still support us by paying sub-sub). And like every year I ask myself the same question: to register or not to register?

The first year I was in school, I was tempted enough: first, because my mother was very enthusiastic ("Think about your mother, who adoooore her daughter to be in the same catalog that all these famous people, eh! Make me happy!"), then because I felt absolutely vehicle dynamics to include my corn in this register, the "ranking cities and departments." Finally, the registration form had to go in the trash with a ton and a half of unnecessary documentation that we circulated early in the first year, because when I thought about it, about six months later, she had mysteriously disappeared.

Then they are more ethical problems posed, still current today. I tell you right now, I do not like the side "we form a small club of insiders and elbows are used us, others may die". I'm not saying it is the mindset of "A" Ulm ", far from it, but it's still what it used to: I'm Normale Normale Bidule is also, I do not know him at all, but I'll use it to make me more or less piston. Personally, I am not at all in this kind of "social networking", but it is probably also a matter of family and social background.

Now I think it's great what this Association to help young (and old) in the ENS shit (because there are) or just give a financial boost to the projects (last year, the teachers of epigraphy and paleo they have managed to we reimburse the full travel joint study in Lyon). And of course, that if I ever get an email from a young person who would need help, I do pose any problem. But I will help and answer their questions, whether or not Normale: it will not change. I will even say: play on a pseudo-solidarity Normale would be the best way to walk to send and if I can help you, I will, no matter where you came from. That's works (or should work) meritocracy Republican and I agree to do all this thinking.

Finally, the final argument that is likely to carry the song, enrollment in Archicubier (directory of alumni, who are called "ArchiCube" once out of school) is also, in some ways a kind of proof that you are indeed Normale. Not that I feel the need to prove it (I do not care, I know I am and if you do not believe it, too bad for you), much less to proclaim ( I'm also not sure that is very strategic for a career in academia, even if it does not fit the stereotype of the arrogant and imbued Normale itself). But finally, it's still a way to acknowledge a fact.

And, after all, for me to do what I want, this inclusion in Archicubier, is not it?

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Hi everyone!

Just a quick note, in passing, to announce the arrival of a new contributor, Eunostos! From the time he participates in reviews (see . Especially the many links to sites with texts online he communicated as and when its findings) and that we agree the need to do something else with Antiquity online processing, a commentator in official contributor was obvious. Personally, I drool over his demonstration of the usefulness of learning ancient languages , which is so much better than my rant pissed! Take a tour, you will see there level.

And then, having the advice of a Hellenist, it's interesting, too. No, it's true, I have always rattle cons that reduce its Hellenistic antiquity to Greece if I do the same thing with Rome, I'm not very coherent. Moreover, I told you about the seminar cross my research team that does that on Greece ...?

It is Hellenist, mythologist, to be more accurate, also in contention, also with scholarship and mentoring. I let it stand in more detail where he feels the need. In my case, I only have one thing to say: welcome!

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should you need ...

I'm afraid I have to read the correspondence of Pliny the Younger for my thesis ... Because, in fact, I'll be somewhere in no man's land between cultural history, literary, attitudes, representations, etc.. (Delete as appropriate), it is fine to have to try to understand further how the company could well be the beginning of the second century AD, and for that, alas, nothing better than reading the correspondence of Pliny the Younger ...

Now I hate this guy. But really. This guy is a narcissistic bug, which has only one thing: to be submitted with all possible vanity and engage in shopping as the guys from the "The polishing brush" Duck chains are really, really really small players. Read Panegyric of Trajan (well, if you get there, because it's really unbearable), you will understand what I mean.

That said, it is what it takes and is very conscientious masochist that I am, I am ready to sacrifice my repulsion horripilée on the altar of my thesis (I still said that I still hope that correspondence is not as bad as the Panegyric , although for what I already know I'm under no illusions ...).

Fortunately, my "regular" is translated texts by more than absolutely brilliant deployments of self-satisfaction. Go rather the beginning of Stories de Tacite, que je vous donne en latin ET en traduction (la maison est généreuse, aujourd'hui) :

Opus adgredior opimum casibus, atrox proeliis, discors seditionibus, ipsa etiam pace saeuom : quattuor principes ferro interempti, trina bella ciuilia, plura externa ac plerumque permixta ; prosperae in Oriente, aduersae in Occidente res ; turbatum Illyricum, Galliae nutantes, perdomita Britannia et statim missa, coortae in nos Sarmatorum ac Sueborum gentes, nobilitatus cladibus mutuis Dacus, mota prope etiam Parthorum arma falsi Neronis ludibrio. Iam uero Italia nouis cladibus uel post longam saeculorum seriem repetitis adflicta : haustae aut obrutae urbes, fecundissima Campaniae ora ; et urbs incendiis uastata, consumptis antiquissimis delubris, ipso Capitolio ciuium manibus incenso. Pollutae caerimoniae, magna adulteria ; plenum exiliis mare, infesti caedibus scopuli. Atrocius in urbe saeuitum : nobilitas, opes, omissi gestique honores pro crimine et ob uirtutes certissimum exitium. Nec minus praemia delatorum inuisa quam scelera, cum alii sacerdotia et consulatum ut spolia adepti, procuratores alii et interiorem potentiam, agerent uerterent cuncta odio et terrore ; corrupti in dominos serui, in patronos liberti ; et quibus deerat inimicus per amicos oppressi.

Non tamen adeo uirtutum sterile saeculum ut non et bona exempla prodiderit. Comitatae profugos liberos matres, secutae maritos in exilia coniuges ; propinqui audentes, constantes generi, contumax etiam aduersus tormenta seruorum fides ; supremar clarorum uirorum necessitates, ipsa necessitas fortites tolerata et laudatis antiquorum mortibus pares exitus. Praeter multiplices rerum humanarum casus, caelo terraque prodigia et fulminum monitus et futurorum praesagia, laeta tristia, ambigua manifesta ; nec enim umquam atrocioribus populi Romani cladibus magisue iustiis indiciis approbatum est non esse curae deis securitatem nostram, esse ultionem.

"J'entreprends une oeuvre riche en événements, atroce par ses batailles, déchirées par des séditions, cruelle même en pleine paix : quatre empereurs tués par le fer, trois guerres civiles, davantage de guerres extérieures et, la plupart du temps, mixed; successes in the East, failures in the West stirred Illyricum, Gaul faltering, Britain completely tamed and soon lost, and Sarmatian peoples Sueba raised against us, Dace made famous by defeats on both of another, almost same arms of the Parthians set in motion by the deception of a false Nero. And therefore Italy afflicted by disasters new or repeated after a long series of generations: the cities exhausted or wiped on the banks of the fertile Campania and Rome devastated by fires, while ancient temples were consumed by fire, as the Capitol itself was burned by the hands of citizens. Desecrated religious ceremonies, large adulterers sea full of exiles, the rocks because of the hideous murders. In Rome, it prevails more cruelly: the nobility, wealth, expenses foregone or we carried considered crimes and death quite certain because of virtues. And rewards to informers were no less odious than their crimes, like, the one having seized such spoils of war, and priesthoods consulates of the procurators and other power in the palace, they put everything upside down by hatred and terror were corrupted slaves against their masters, freedmen against their boss, and those who were devoid of enemies were crushed through their friends.

This period however was not so barren of virtues it has also produced good examples. Mothers accompanied their children in their flight, wives followed their husbands into exile; relatives were bold and strong in-law held, slaves were stubbornly faithful even to torture; great men endured with courage the ultimate effects of fate, the ultimate fate itself death and equaled the dead famous alumni. Besides the many misfortunes that struck human affairs, there was, in heaven and on earth, wonders, lightning warnings and portents of the future, happy, sad, ambiguous, manifest, for we never demonstrates with most horrific disaster for the Roman people and signs fairer than the gods do not care about our safety but for our punishment, inflicted by revenge. "


Nice program, does not it? Tacitus Thanks!