Singers, writers, athletes, directors… How would these personalities have responded to the question: "Do we need to know to be able? ”, what memories do they have of this exam? Answer in our archives !
The novelist Alexandre JARDIN gives us a memory of his baccalaureate which still arouses in him a frank hilarity today. "I have a dazzling memory of this, especially of the English oral test. I went last and I had in front of me a young woman with a rather pleasant physique. We talked for a long time and I ended the night in the young woman’s bed. I was 17 years old. It’s a confusing and wonderful memory.
Sylvie VARTAN, a student and star of the song is interviewed by Georges PAUMIER in her room. She prepares her baccalaureate parallel to her career as a singer.
Interviewed by Michel DROIT, Claude LELOUCH discusses his short studies and his way of acquiring knowledge. He went to the first baccalaureate without getting it. The day before he took the oral exam, he heard his father tell his mother that if their son did not pass the exam, he would buy her a camera because he was passionate about cinema. Claude LELOUCH therefore deliberately failed to speak, and his father bought him his first camera. He feels that he was not made for studies because he refuses to be forced to ingest knowledge.
The subjects proposed for the baccalaureate in philosophy were closely linked to politics. Journalists ask politicians about "Do men need to be governed?". Laurent FABIUS, PS MP, François FILLON, Minister of National Education, François BAYROU, President of the UDF, Elisabeth GUIGOU, PS MP, Jack LANG, PS MP, and Nathalie KOSCIUSKO MORIZET, UMP MP say what they would have said.
On the occasion of the writing of the philosophy exams for the 1989 baccalaureate, the journalist Pierre FRAIDENRAICH was interrogated personalities at Roland-Garros. Patrick BRUEL, Emmanuel PINDA, Enrico MACIAS, Philippe LABRO, Pascal LEGITIMUS and Henri SALVADOR are invited to talk about the strength of the weak, is revolt a right? Or do you have to know to be able to? They get away with more or less panache...