Oxmo Puccino and M pay tribute to teachers

Montage with two photos of M and Oxmo Puccino.

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It comes out on November 6, but the timing was too important not to drop a few pieces of it.

After the assassination of Samuel Paty, a teacher who died for having explained

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 to students, the artists Matthieu Chedid (alias “M”) and Oxmo Puccino each unveiled a title paying tribute to the teachers.

Two readings by Albert Camus and Jean Jaurès, taken from the album "Days of Glory", which brings together 19 artists, including Jane Birkin, Camélia Jordana, Akhenaton, Grand Corps Malade Muriel Robin and Abd Al Malik.

A project in the form of an ode to the Republic, carried since 2014 by Sébastien Boudria, composer and music teacher at the conservatories of Clichy and Colombes, in Hauts-de-Seine.

A "humanist vision"

"You hold the intelligence and soul of children in your hands (...) Children have unlimited curiosity, and you can slowly lead them to the end of the world", says the letter "to teachers" by Jean Jaurès , former deputy and President of the French Socialist Party, and one of the drafters of the law on the separation of churches and state.

It is this text interpreted by rapper Oxmo Puccino, and chosen and set to music by Sébastien Boudria, "passionate about France and its history" and suburban child "aware of what [he] owes to the Republic.

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“Everything is said in this text, which Jean Jaurès wrote at the age of 29.

It transmits a humanist vision of society, it defines the role of the teacher, the one who gives hope to the students….

We could not say better ”, celebrates the teacher, touched by the death of Samuel Paty.

“It was complicated to pretend nothing had happened.

Three of the 19 texts relate to education, it is a real common thread.

It is probably because I am a teacher.

Samuel Paty died for teaching freedom of expression, and that's what I wanted to do with this work, there is an obvious parallel.

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"Without you, without this loving hand ..."

The letter to teachers was read during the national homage to Samuel Paty, as was Albert Camus' “Letter to Monsieur Germain”, another “tube” from the Republic, also present in “Days of glory”.

This time it's M, whose real name is Matthieu Chedid, who sticks to it.

"I have just been given too great an honor, which I neither sought nor requested," wrote Albert Camus to his teacher, just after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. But when I learned of it. news, my first thought, after my mother, was for you.

Without you, without this loving hand that you extended to the poor little child that I was, without your teaching, and your example, none of this would have happened.

It's beautiful and it's read so well.

"Samuel Paty was not supported"

The pupils should soon at least take note of the Letter to the teachers of Jean Jaurès: the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has just announced in

that it will be read at the start of the school year, the 2 November, by high school students.

A good idea according to Sébastien Boudria: "I find it always positive that we honor the Republic, and a teacher who has done his job".

But the music teacher warns: “We shouldn't wait for horrible things to put this at the center of the game. Many teachers are mistreated by their hierarchy, badly paid, discredited.

Samuel Paty was not supported, as soon as there is a problem we are quickly let go.

The ceremony was great, but we have to get back to basics.

There is a real problem in the public service professions.

Blanquer better distribute Days of Glory to the students!

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