Alain-Dominique PERRIN President of the Cartier Foundation, invited to talk about the installation of the Cartier Boulevard Raspail Foundation, in the building designed by Jean Nouvel, returns with Georges BEGOU on the patronage of the Toubon circular. Alain-Dominique PERRIN is delighted with Jacques Toubon’s decision, especially since this request was made to François Léotard in 1987. It will allow a faster depreciation of corporate patronage.
In Deauville, at the American film festival, Charlton HESTON by the pool returns with Henri CHAPIER on the dispute that opposes him to Jack Lang on their conception of art, since their meeting in Mexico City. Jack Lang argues that industry can kill creation. For Charlton HESTON «art must not be at the service of the state, the creators do not have to submit to any national policy".
CÉSAR, in his workshop receives Frantz André BURGUET and Michèle Arnaud. The interview begins by talking about Malraux on whom he was questioned by the literary Figaro: "It is certain that as minister of culture, even if we did not agree with him, he knew these problems. He was not a merchant of wine or lemonade". CAESAR without any discomfort, not knowing how to read, admits that he did not read the? work of André Malraux".
Henri LANGLOIS speaks of the considerable support of the minister of cultural affairs André Malraux in the realization of the Cinémathèque"There would never have been the Palais de Chaillot, if there had not been the minister". As an illustration of his remarks, archive images showing the inauguration of the cinematheque with Georges Pompidou.
One of the consequences of Maurice Druon’s little sentence on the "sébile and the Molotov cocktail" in the National Assembly is the resignation of the council for cultural development. Pierre EMMANUEL, advisor to the cultural development of the government, discusses the disagreement of conception of the cultural policy of the current government. Pierre EMMANUEL insists that it is not the Minister of Cultural Affairs Maurice Druon that he questions, and refers to his predecessor Jacques Duhamel by simply recalling that the notion of culture in France must be"a broader, more social notion, it relates to a form of life of the French, to the harmony of their human relations, to that society they must build together, individually and collectively".
Interviewé par Marcel Bluwal, Michel Piccoli lance un appel à l'Etat en soulignant l'importance des arts et spectacles pour les loisirs et la culture du public.
Françoise Giroud, newly appointed to the Ministry of Culture, describes how modestly she approaches this position. According to her, taking charge of this complex and heterogeneous ministry represents a great responsibility.