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[this is how the google translation does over the French…]
In the garden of the Palais Royal (I st ), Paul Verlaine dialogue with Mahmoud Darwish .
"No color, nothing but nuance! "Exclaimed the friend of Rimbaud.
"My country is a suitcase, my bag, my country," replied the Palestinian poet.This exchange towards a century later, is the gift that comes to offer Parisians the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet . Fell under the charm of the capital it was 50 years ago, this artist 72 spring remembers being "struck at the time by the fact that here, we can move the chairs in the gardens."
Half a century later, Michel Goulet returns with ten chairs-poems, "confidants" as he refers to seats assembled in pairs by him and he offers to the garden of the Palais Royal, thanks to the generosity of its gallery owner, Sylvie and Simon Blais and the Quebec government foundation. Under the sun, the 1921 chairs recovered and retyped look great. Especially since each file was laser drilled to inscribe a verse of a French or foreign poet (Baudelaire, Eluard, Cocteau , Pasolini ...), supplemented by the name of its author.
Installed since March 2, the loveseats are welded by a shelf on which the artist has sculpted a small object in bronze, in this case a harmonica for Verlaine and Darwish. Inside, MP3 works with solar collectors, which allows the walker branch his headphones on the case, listen to a poem recited by the author or an actor of French comedy. A total of twenty French and foreign contemporary writers of texts are stored.
Garden director (who already had 60 chairs) on behalf of the National Monuments Centre, Sylvie Vial welcomes this initiative to "recognize the literary tradition of the Palais Royal where lived Colette and Cocteau."
As for Michel Goulet, he exults: "I am very proud of my confidants enter the garden of the Palais Royal. This is the most prestigious project I have ever done. " The artist also thanked the French François Massut, "one businessman lover of poetry who opened the doors to Paris! "
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