Facing Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and Alain Duhamel, Georges Marchais, secretary general of the PCF, very fit: "When I heard François Mitterrand refuse to commit to the existence of an independent national defense, I told my wife, François Mitterrand decided to abandon the joint program of the left, pack your bags and go back to Paris!" Laughter in the room.
Aimée MORTIMER, on the stage of the "Ecole des vedettes" talks with Georges BRASSENS and Johnny HALLYDAY. After having found them the common point of not liking to express themselves, she asks each one what he thinks of the other. They say they like each other.
In the first hours of the liberation of the capital, on August 25, 1944, Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, the General of GAULLE delivers a speech with his famous phrase: "... Paris, Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated!... released by himself, liberated by his people, with the help of the armies of France...". Images filmed by a team of filmmakers of the Resistance.
On the outdoor stage, Marie-Ange NARDI receives Pierrette GUILLOU, restauratrice, who prepared a recipe of oysters with chanterelles, and makes a slip by introducing her by explaining "that they make love with two" (she meant "the kitchen with two"). Laugh at Vincent PERROT and Christian MORIN.
Interviewed in his villa in Cadaquès, in the company of his wife Gala, Salvador DALI ironically criticizes the media and the cinema of which he claims to enjoy fully: "I consider television, cinema, the press, journalism as a great modern means of degrading and creating crowds".
From the cinema "Le familial" in Reims, Eddy MITCHELL presents the show "La dernière séance" and says as an introduction "Well friends of the last session, I see you tonight, it’s Eddy Mitchell, happy?".
To the question of Bernard PIVOT on the laughter and the perpetual smile that he wears despite his difficult situation, the DALAI LAMA answers with an Indian saying.
Charles TRENET talks about poetry in songs, Christmas-Christmas, the poets, musicians and painters he loves. He comments on a watercolour he painted, showing his mother on the piano. He would have liked to be a journalist.
Present in Avoriaz as part of the French Film Festival, Jean ROCHEFORT is interviewed by a viewer about his moustache. He explains that he let her grow from his role in misanthropy and admits feeling without underwear when he shaves her.
Rony Brauman, president of "Médecins sans Frontières" defines the term "humanitarian": "Humanitarian is not humanity... Humanitarianism is a well-defined action aimed at alleviating suffering without discrimination... It goes from man to man... Then there’s politics, social, people-to-people dialogue, national policies, development assistance.... It is necessary to have a restrictive, limiting conception of humanitarian if we want to give it its substance"
Rony Brauman, president of "Médecins sans Frontières" talks about the media coverage of humanitarian actions in Ethiopia and the reality on the ground.
On the set, Gérard PABIOT presents a subject in which he interviews an anonymous about his return trip to France. The man, with a strong Spanish rocky accent, makes rough remarks making the interview totally incomprehensible. Back on stage with Patrick POIVRE D'ARVOR.
Interview with Jacques BREL on his farewell to the stage. He is not tired of the stage and wants to continue writing but he wants to discover other things.
Special edition on the tragic 24-hour Le Mans accident that killed 82 people. The Mercedes of the Frenchman Pierre LEVEGH, leaves the runway, flies away, explodes in flight and disperses in incandescent projectiles in the midst of the crowd, mowing down hundreds of people. Mercedes will not participate in the 24 hours of Le Mans until 1998. The RTF team, which covers the Eurovision event, films the drama and broadcasts it the next morning. [Comments]: This document is part of a set of documents listed in the inventory of 13/02/1974 and 19/09/1980 as being in Hell, probably for legal reasons.