François CAVANNA answers Bernard PIVOT’s questions about his book "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose...". In this passage, he speaks of his love of the French language, of which he loves everything: "When you love a woman, you also love her moles," he says with poetry. He even likes the clichés he defines as "something splendid that has succeeded too well". He evokes as an example the expression "Push a sigh".
On the occasion of the release of his book "The Ritals", François CAVANNA returns to the places of his childhood about to disappear in Nogent-sur-Marne. In the street Sainte Anne where he lived with his parents, he describes a bit nostalgic and gouailleur what this neighborhood was almost exclusively populated by poor Italians and where children were the masters of the neighborhood. "Ritals was what the bougnoules are today...the only foreigners who are in number were the Italians... The street at that time was teeming with kids..." he says.
Bernard PIVOT receives François CAVANNA on the occasion of the release of his book "Les Russkoffs" which recounts his experience of the Second World War with among others his experience of the STO in Berlin. It was in this German labor camp that he fell in love with a Russian woman and more generally with Russians. In this excerpt, François CAVANNA declares his flame to the people and the Russian language: "It was love at first sight...I did not know these explosive virtues," he says. He recounts with passion and emotion his encounter with these characters from all over Russia who deeply upset him: "It was Michael Strogoff, it was the boat on the Volga, Ivan Ogareff, the tartars...".
Bernard PIVOT receives François CAVANNA on the occasion of the release of his book "Les Russkoffs" which recounts his experience of the Second World War. The host asks the writer in what category he would classify his book. "Pamphlet against war" replies without hesitation CAVANNA. And he adds: "I dedicate this book to all the poor idiots who undergo wars...I want to be put against a wall that kills me but that they do not ask me in addition to say "Vive la France!".
François CAVANNA defines love in the face of happiness "We confuse love and happiness because we need happiness and because love we feel it, so we want to try to make the two coincide". He adds: "Love you suffer, it makes of you what it wants..."
Suffering from Parkinson’s disease, François CAVANNA gives a disturbing testimony in his book "Honeymoon". In this interview, he explains his difficulties to write legibly, to walk... According to him, "A Parkinsonian is much more an advanced old man than a sick man."
François CAVANNA and Gaston FERDIERE try to speak while BUKOWSKI drunk constantly speaks. Strongly annoyed, CAVANNA gives him a "BUKOWSKI your mouth, you annoy us". BUKOWSKI persists and signs in grudge. PIVOT says "shut up" immediately followed by CAVANNA who gets mad at him and says "BUKOWSKI I’m going to put my fist in your face"
Éméché, François CAVANNA déplore la disparition du journal "Charlie Hebdo" expliquant que ses dessinateurs ont encore beaucoup de choses à dire. Il ajoute qu'il ne souhaite pas collaborer avec le journal "Hara Kiri" qui selon lui est complètement différent de celui qu'il avait fondé dans les années 1960. Il déclare face au professeur Choron : "Hara Kiri n'est plus Hara Kiri, c'est un pâle pastiche, une pâle copie de ce qu'il a été. Un truc de vieux cons."
Georges WOLINSKI and François CAVANNA explain with humour how they chose the covers of the newspaper "Hara Kiri". They explain that this decision could take hours.
François CAVANNA evokes the cover that led to the ban of Hara Kiri in 1970 "Tragic Ball in Colombey, a dead man". He explains, "It was so beautiful, we knew it was dangerous but it was so beautiful that we couldn’t afford it."
When asked by Noël MAMERE, François CAVANNA presents his book "Maria" which devotes a chapter to the character of Camille, retired postman of the Maubert district who assumed the role of "drunk bison" and inspired different characters of the Hara Kiri newspaper.
Debate on stage, led by Philippe GASSOT, between the writer and cartoonist François CAVANNA, anti-corrida, and the journalist Jacques DURAND, pro-corrida. Shock sentence of François CAVANNA: "Nothing makes me happier than when I know that a matador was opened the belly with blows of horn".
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