Ajaccio (AFP)
Napoleon is honored in Ajaccio Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the first edition of "Lume, luminous stories", a nocturnal walk, musical and bright, between three historic sites of the city center, in the footsteps of the emperor .
Named "1769, Born in Ajaccio", this new free festival organized by the tourist office of Ajaccio, dedicates its first edition to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte by telling his story in sound and images projected on the walls of the city.
Thursday evening at 18H, the festivities organized with the collaboration of the French-Polish video artist Milosh Luczinsky, began with the public reading at the heritage library of a text by Dorothy Carrington, "Napoleon and his parents", read by François Orsoni, artistic director of the festival, accompanied by the singing of Diana Saliceti.
Friday, the reading of "the life of Napoleon by himself" André Malraux open the evening before Saturday, a conference of Jean Mendelson around his book "St. Helena 2015".
Every evening from 19H to 22H30, every 15 minutes, a play of light and images on the imperial chapel in the palace Fesch will retrace the history of Napoleon, his first years on the island, his life in Ajaccio, his ascent political until his coronation, then Russia, loneliness and living legend.
A few steps away, other visual animations will illuminate the Place de la Mairie and the garden of the National Museum of the Maison Bonaparte, all set to music respectively by Steve Jones, half of the English duet "A Man call Adam" and the Corsican composer Pierre Gambini, author of the music of the TV series Mafiosa.
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