Jean-René Van Der Plaetsen, weapon sizes and tears of honor

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Portrait of the journalist and writer Jean-René Van Der Plaetsen, on the occasion of the release of his novel “The profession of dying”.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The journalist and writer Jean-René Van Der Plaetsen pays a vibrant tribute to the profession of soldier.

His novel Le Métier de Mourir is published by Editions Grasset.

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It is a novel of the in-between.

Between two states, since the theater of operations is an enclave wedged between Israel and southern Lebanon.

Between two states, the state of life and death since a shot or an attack can change everything.

Between two colors, the blue of the Mediterranean and the green of the Bekaa plain.

Between two eras, the present of a heavy and unbearable expectation, and the past laden with scars and secrets.

Between two soldiers too, a veteran crowned with glory and a young recruit who aspires to it.

Behind this story,

Jean-René Van Der Plaetsen

, deputy director of Figaro Magazine, but also a writer and himself a former soldier, notably in Lebanon, within the UNIFIL.

Three years after

La Nostalgie de l'Honneur

, here is

Le Métier de Mourir

 published by Editions Grasset.

On the menu of this Café Gourmand

:

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Antoine Pecqueur

attended the Opéra Comique at the first rehearsals of

Hippolyte et Aricie

, a baroque opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Respecting health precautions, the vocal soloists and the choir were all masked.

An exercise anything but easy for these voice professionals.

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Marjorie Bertin 

closes the Avignon Art Week, with Guy de Maupassant's Horla.

She attended a removed adaptation of Julien Gelas.

The new director of the Théâtre du Chêne Noir mixes the past and the near future, fantasy and new technologies.

-

Sarah Tisseyre

met the Malian rock group Songhoy Blues.

After “Music in exile” and “Resistance”, here is their third album, the most energetic and the most electric of all.

Released last week, it is dubbed, "Optimism".

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