The banquet – De Gaulle political reference or cultural myth?

This new Banquet hosted by Anna Cabana and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot is dedicated to a legend – who is the subject of a biopic that everyone is talking about: General de Gaulle. Savior of France, father of institutions, both Joan of Arc and Louis XI, has he not become, even more than a political reference, a sort of cultural myth?

To discuss it, Anna Cabana and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot receive:
– Jean-Luc Barré, writer, historian, editor, author of De Gaulle, une vie (Grasset), a monumental biography of which the 3rd volume will appear in 2027,
– Titiou Lecoq, journalist, writer and feminist essayist, author of Les Grandes Oubliées (Éditions de l’Iconoclaste),
– Nicolas Domenach, political journalist, author of « Néron à l’Élysée » (Albin Michel),
– Julian Jackson, British historian, professor emeritus of French history, author of the biography (De Gaulle, a certain idea of ​​France, Seuil) on which the biopic of Antonin Baudry is based.

Because there was a lack of a show that took culture seriously without taking itself seriously. Because understanding the world also means understanding the stories that shape it. Because it is time to reconcile the scholarly and the popular. “The Banquet” is a program that talks about scholarly culture in a popular way and popular culture in a scholarly way. A long time, a breath, a space for reflection, in a world saturated with information and immediate debates. At the helm: Anna Cabana and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, both journalists and writers, set up a unique table where ideas, works, figures and imaginations intersect.

Twice a month, “The Banquet” tackles a major cultural theme, informed by the history of ideas, sociology, politics, and pop culture. In a resolutely humanist, but never elitist, spirit, the show brings Plato and Netflix, Molière and Marvel, Barthes and social networks into dialogue.

It’s Friday, sit down at the table, the discussion can begin.
Presented by: Anna Cabana and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot