What is happening at the table of tyrants?
Audio 48:30
At the table of tyrants © shutterstock / Ultrasto
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
54 mins
“Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you what a tyrant you are”.
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Jean-Bedel Bokassa ... are sadly known for their abuses and their tyrannical way of exercising power.
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They were also the first bellies of their country.
Intimate and private, the meal time for heads of state, scrutinized by a whole people, is also public and political.
What do the eating habits of the powerful say about their way of governing?
Investigation in the dining rooms of the most famous tyrants in history.
With
:
Christian Roubaut
, journalist and author of
À la table de tyrans (Flammarion editions)
A Focus with
Sarah Cozzolino
, our correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at Jaïr Bolsonaro's table.
At the end of the program,
Charlie Dupiot's
new column
“
At the height of children
.” Each month, children aged 8 to 13 tell their vision of the world from their daily lives.
Today, direction Conakry where Ténin, Mariam, Djenaba, Méria and Kabinet, talk to us about love.
Love, at the height of children by Charlie Dupiot
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