[Music]
there is an age when we no longer believe
really to Santa Claus
Nevertheless, we have all been rocked by
accounts or stories a little bit
mysterious during our childhood I do not
do not know if you remember a
particular tale that has marked you and
that you would have liked to convey that
you may have passed on to your
children or your grandchildren
I remember India or everything
particularly
I do not know its author besides I
did not ask
I was about ten years old maybe
it’s the story of an eastern prince
very busy with the business of his
kingdom and who decides a day of
summon these wise these scholars he their
says my friends write me some
number of volumes all it is
important to know to know our
time and that I will pass on it gets started
at the carved a few times later he
brings him 74 volume all you need
know and all that we can
transmit in science in technique in
art in philosophy in literature a
encyclopedia very busy with business
of his kingdom there a cold reading
later they summon them again
my friends and I miss the time to read
as many books can you
abstracts in sixteen books
it runs there again the time goes by
very busy with the affairs of the kingdom and
tell them my friends I miss the time
to read as many books is what
you can summarize them in one
work they do it but the king become
very old no longer has time
stay are counted to him he summons to
again the wise the philosophers the
scholars he tells them my friends is what
you could summarize what I have
know of essential ex I have to
transmit in one sentence
and if possible in a word the wise ones
silent
think and 10
but in fact the account stops there on
an unexpressed word on a huge
frustration and are left unfinished to
haunt nights and actually
Reflective wise among the wise
if I had to send a word to
prince I think I would have said no
I did not mean it’s a secret
besides, you could say to yourself
prince who would be the end the ultimate term
of existence
I let you think about it
will ask the question in a quarter
of time always is it that I have
always been fascinated by this question
of the transmission
how to transmit
why transmit to whom to transmit
than transmit and as this account
refer to an essential question
I became naturally
professor of philosophy attached to
transmit a culture a spirit
critical to forming men and
free women as much as possible
I was also fascinated by the mystery
missing civilizations like you
probably the ancient egypt the mayas
still see the Easter Island
civilizations that are born that
develops who die breakdown of the
transmission is the interrogation was
precisely the next how
regain the momentum of these great
civilization movement that eventually
by shaping the identity of a people and
a whole culture
how to blow on embers for
light a small flame so frail 6 and
6 hesitantly so flickering
knowing that with a small flame we
can always lit great
fire guide in this search by
few glasses a few words a little
little like suning ghosn this music from
the Jewish tradition was dulled was by
example those of the poet jean pierre
calloch to be dead breton during
the war of 14
teach me the words that wake up a
people and I will go messengers of hope
repeat them to my bretagne en rui
will learn the words that wake up a
people or that of the poet patrician of the
pine tower
countries that do not have a legend are
sentenced to die of cold so I’m
am saying well if I create an island of
easter a new easter island to
the image of a civilization project
ambitious
knowing that there is in Brittany a
thousand of reputed such st who gave
their name to almost all
common brittany
the staff map of brittany is
a true litany of the saints it is necessary
know that in Brittany our ancestors
are not the Gauls but the Welsh
as well as the Cornish people as well as
the Irish is that they crossed the
sleeve fifteen centuries ago on
improbable stone gauge in the
part of a wonderful celtic odyssey
have settled in armorica and the
story of their life ended up composing
extraordinary air agents these famous
lives of saints this is also the story of
the city of ys saint aurelian pol who
was it a dragon and his stories that
we focus on what we
transmitted at night by the fire
wakes over the generations has
ends up composing a popular culture
are the foundation stories that’s
the equivalent for us all is of this
what is Greek mythology
so how do you remember this
story but just the idea
stood out with the quiet force
of evidence and if I did
actually a thousand statues to
the effigy of saints bretons since I
you said every Breton commune
bears the name of a saint saint pol de
leon saint malo saint brieuc then you
are you saying yes but the list is short
no no no no in every word there is a
holy hiding
when you have the lance where the spear
the abbey the monastery lanildut you
five-minute monastery landivisiau the
monastery of saint and vizio the blue the
people to plevent the people of
split 21 ploumilliau the people of 5
millions and so on
and so here I am going to make an island of
easter breton with giant statues
from four to six meters high
more than Easter Island there are pretty much
890 moais easter island
it can not be less than 1000 in
brittany I submit the project to two
research firms including a North American
it is useful project
the answer is without appeal you have to
abandon the project a project that
is based on a reminder of an era
Merovingian ie the time of
dagobert of childebert but you do not
do not think everyone forgot about this
a project that relies on breasts or
are in the middle of
secularization out of religion
a close a project that will recall any
a regional culture Breton culture
but finally we are confronted with the
steamroller of a subculture
globalized
a project that will take place in Brittany
in the heart of Brittany in a
region hit by desertification at
the difference of the tourist routes
it’s unrealistic a project that will
financed by patronage in full
economic downturn
a project that will not include an entry
paying but you are a sweet dreamer
should I continue the list of all
impossibilities that made this project
impossible today in a small
commune of central brittany 114 statue
giant four to six meters tall is
prepare to compose what I called
the valley of saints remembering me that
in my youth I had descended the nile
visited the valley of kings and queens
and meditated on civilizations
disappeared at the top of the big
pyramid of kheops at 140 meters from
height and at the end of this year 2010
8 the valley of saints which is a place
of transmission of a Breton history
forgotten which is a place of transmission
artistic know-how that of
sculptors and we will open in a few
weeks the first school of sculpture
monumental europe place
transmission of a popular culture that
was no longer taught place of
transmission of a spirit and well this
valley of saints at the end of the year
2018 according to the pace of attendance
current will exceed the number of four
hundred and thirty thousand visitors with
the goal even if it’s not an end
in itself one million visitors from here
four to five years
[Music]
[Music]
I
[Music]
this adventure is not an isolated case
almost a quarter of a century ago I
am attached to revive a very old
pilgrimage
the three breizh at the turn of brittany which
once invited every Breton to do
once in his life
the tour from this ancient cathedral
and current brittany quimper saint
lefron tréguier pol saint saint brieuc
malo dol valves is 800 km about a
months of walking because of 25 to 30
kilometers a day there too when he
was to revive
nobody believed it was not anymore
the time today just what we
did it is to put a new wine
in another very old ie
that we simply cut out this journey
cathedrals in cathedral to reason
of a step every year is today
tro Breizh well as walking
collective and the biggest march
collective over such a long period
that is to say on a week in France
if I tell you that it’s simply
to tell you that where there is a
will there is a way and this is the
why I would like
you associate a project that will be
certainly one of the adventures the
more exciting 21st century
during this adventure this is what
I call the city of peace so I
told you earlier that I was
philosophy teacher so I have
started my career
there is already some time it was in
1976 the other millennium cooperating in
north cameroon on the highlands of
the adamaoua at 1200 meters of altitude in
full country muslim young teacher
without experience
without a working library without
photocopier without internet without
television phone once a
week and mail and at the pace of
bottles to the sea but classes to
fifty students who studied at night
in the light of the lampposts there was the
real life at the same time to train the
first crews of the young history
from Cameroon
and when I went back to Cameroon he
a few years ago as a tourist this
Once I was upset to see
the evolution of the country
You have to know that Cameroon is a
Africa in miniature there are a hundred
of ethnicities a hundred tribes and
each has or had a type
of vernacular architects well
specific
lessard and fulbé the kasubi of the
mosses goom the pygmies’ huts and
when I actually came back
all this had disappeared replaced by
brick and sheet metal houses
pathetic caricature of modernity
unsuited to the climate it dies of hot there
below leading to debt
whereas in the past, materials
natural cost nothing and create
solidarities of builder all a
heritage vernacular architecture
was disappearing
the idea was to make a
conservatory of architecture
traditional Cameroonian
while he is still UNESCO
pulls the alarm bell
soon everything will be erased so i’m going to
yaoundé the capital of cameroon i
meet three ministers a rector
of university several mayors and I
very quickly recovers 500 hectares for
so build this conservatory of the
traditional architecture north
Cameroon
but in the meantime you follow the news
the deadly incursions of boko haram
from neighboring nigeria render
this project momentarily impossible in
any case
to be in parentheses and this
parenthesis well I decided to the
take advantage by modifying the project
that is to say, no longer simply doing
a conservatory of architecture
traditional Cameroon messin
conservatory of architecture
traditional world no longer a
Breton project but a global project
the idea being to bring together all the countries
of the world to build way exhibition
universal, but with a view to
perennial vocations the most
emblematic of architecture
vernacular earthen with houses
earth can last several centuries if
they are well maintained in stones
dry or wooden then this project
it’s simply a project that we
must drive on behalf of a requirement all
indeed legitimate obvious backup
a universal heritage in the name of the law
peoples with historical continuity
so this project will be a huge project
who will put on the same site that will do
to build on the same place young people and
young people from all over the world
every continent with bridges
that will open to eco projects
construction
to overcome both a knowledge
do ancestral and then the requirements
legitimate comfort and modernity
so since we have to prove the
movement when we walk we will start
next year, this first project
which will consist in building the first
boxes at the goal of Cameroon then the boxes
in goal they are boxes from 15 to 16
meters high
those who have fascinated andré gide
when he was passing through this
central african region and that it is
described elsewhere in his notebooks the
back from Chad
it does virtually no longer exists this
project will be called the city of peace
to make a memory of men and
women of peace from these different countries
for example for the boxes at the goal of the
Cameroon is good at promoting
builder will be placed under the patronage
Bishop Yves Plumey Bishops
bretons originates from the valves that I have
well- known murdered strangled a little
morning at his home in northern cameroon for
india houses it could mother
teresa from south africa mandela in a
universal companionship well we will do
sound the world champion in a
adventure that is relatively original
is in any case exciting and on this
vernacular architectural heritage
the ambition is to also graft everything
intangible heritage stories
legends the dances the kitchen the
clothes languages
so this project and you seem
impossible but precisely because he
is impossible we will do it we will
do that and that’s the reason why
I’m counting on you, I asked you
question just now remember the
oriental tale I asked you if there
have a word but you would have liked
to convey to the prince an important word
so for me it would be beautiful hat
a latin word
this world is beautiful this world is
beautiful I will bless the world said rimbaud
before dying in a hospital
marseille at the return of bettini then
for you for want of a word since I
did not have an answer it could be
a gesture an action an engagement a
earthen brick a board a stone
sweat to build this city of the
a landmark peace
I think of the words of baudelaire gp tri
from the boil I made some gold
great my only my primitive passion he
come on let’s go knead the mud of the
mother earth to build at a
fraternity found and our letter of
mission will be that admirable word of jean
I have thrown wheat at men
you will make enemies of them
give them a city to build you
will make brothers then the moment is
came
you know the kairos the Greek god
of the opportune occasion
he has wings to remind him
they walk very fast they run
is he a coup on the head for
to be able to catch it when it passes because
never go twice
do not let him pass
the time has come
the wind rises it is necessary to leave said the
philosopher vladimir jankélévitch then
this project of city of peace is the
first project will take place in the summer
next in brittany in a city that
are days in my head but I
will not tell you the name today
I simply ask you to remember
actually this date of summer 2008
2019 because I’m counting on you to build
this site and I thank you for it
advanced
[Applause]
there is an age when we no longer believe
really to Santa Claus
Nevertheless, we have all been rocked by
accounts or stories a little bit
mysterious during our childhood I do not
do not know if you remember a
particular tale that has marked you and
that you would have liked to convey that
you may have passed on to your
children or your grandchildren
I remember India or everything
particularly
I do not know its author besides I
did not ask
I was about ten years old maybe
it’s the story of an eastern prince
very busy with the business of his
kingdom and who decides a day of
summon these wise these scholars he their
says my friends write me some
number of volumes all it is
important to know to know our
time and that I will pass on it gets started
at the carved a few times later he
brings him 74 volume all you need
know and all that we can
transmit in science in technique in
art in philosophy in literature a
encyclopedia very busy with business
of his kingdom there a cold reading
later they summon them again
my friends and I miss the time to read
as many books can you
abstracts in sixteen books
it runs there again the time goes by
very busy with the affairs of the kingdom and
tell them my friends I miss the time
to read as many books is what
you can summarize them in one
work they do it but the king become
very old no longer has time
stay are counted to him he summons to
again the wise the philosophers the
scholars he tells them my friends is what
you could summarize what I have
know of essential ex I have to
transmit in one sentence
and if possible in a word the wise ones
silent
think and 10
but in fact the account stops there on
an unexpressed word on a huge
frustration and are left unfinished to
haunt nights and actually
Reflective wise among the wise
if I had to send a word to
prince I think I would have said no
I did not mean it’s a secret
besides, you could say to yourself
prince who would be the end the ultimate term
of existence
I let you think about it
will ask the question in a quarter
of time always is it that I have
always been fascinated by this question
of the transmission
how to transmit
why transmit to whom to transmit
than transmit and as this account
refer to an essential question
I became naturally
professor of philosophy attached to
transmit a culture a spirit
critical to forming men and
free women as much as possible
I was also fascinated by the mystery
missing civilizations like you
probably the ancient egypt the mayas
still see the Easter Island
civilizations that are born that
develops who die breakdown of the
transmission is the interrogation was
precisely the next how
regain the momentum of these great
civilization movement that eventually
by shaping the identity of a people and
a whole culture
how to blow on embers for
light a small flame so frail 6 and
6 hesitantly so flickering
knowing that with a small flame we
can always lit great
fire guide in this search by
few glasses a few words a little
little like suning ghosn this music from
the Jewish tradition was dulled was by
example those of the poet jean pierre
calloch to be dead breton during
the war of 14
teach me the words that wake up a
people and I will go messengers of hope
repeat them to my bretagne en rui
will learn the words that wake up a
people or that of the poet patrician of the
pine tower
countries that do not have a legend are
sentenced to die of cold so I’m
am saying well if I create an island of
easter a new easter island to
the image of a civilization project
ambitious
knowing that there is in Brittany a
thousand of reputed such st who gave
their name to almost all
common brittany
the staff map of brittany is
a true litany of the saints it is necessary
know that in Brittany our ancestors
are not the Gauls but the Welsh
as well as the Cornish people as well as
the Irish is that they crossed the
sleeve fifteen centuries ago on
improbable stone gauge in the
part of a wonderful celtic odyssey
have settled in armorica and the
story of their life ended up composing
extraordinary air agents these famous
lives of saints this is also the story of
the city of ys saint aurelian pol who
was it a dragon and his stories that
we focus on what we
transmitted at night by the fire
wakes over the generations has
ends up composing a popular culture
are the foundation stories that’s
the equivalent for us all is of this
what is Greek mythology
so how do you remember this
story but just the idea
stood out with the quiet force
of evidence and if I did
actually a thousand statues to
the effigy of saints bretons since I
you said every Breton commune
bears the name of a saint saint pol de
leon saint malo saint brieuc then you
are you saying yes but the list is short
no no no no in every word there is a
holy hiding
when you have the lance where the spear
the abbey the monastery lanildut you
five-minute monastery landivisiau the
monastery of saint and vizio the blue the
people to plevent the people of
split 21 ploumilliau the people of 5
millions and so on
and so here I am going to make an island of
easter breton with giant statues
from four to six meters high
more than Easter Island there are pretty much
890 moais easter island
it can not be less than 1000 in
brittany I submit the project to two
research firms including a North American
it is useful project
the answer is without appeal you have to
abandon the project a project that
is based on a reminder of an era
Merovingian ie the time of
dagobert of childebert but you do not
do not think everyone forgot about this
a project that relies on breasts or
are in the middle of
secularization out of religion
a close a project that will recall any
a regional culture Breton culture
but finally we are confronted with the
steamroller of a subculture
globalized
a project that will take place in Brittany
in the heart of Brittany in a
region hit by desertification at
the difference of the tourist routes
it’s unrealistic a project that will
financed by patronage in full
economic downturn
a project that will not include an entry
paying but you are a sweet dreamer
should I continue the list of all
impossibilities that made this project
impossible today in a small
commune of central brittany 114 statue
giant four to six meters tall is
prepare to compose what I called
the valley of saints remembering me that
in my youth I had descended the nile
visited the valley of kings and queens
and meditated on civilizations
disappeared at the top of the big
pyramid of kheops at 140 meters from
height and at the end of this year 2010
8 the valley of saints which is a place
of transmission of a Breton history
forgotten which is a place of transmission
artistic know-how that of
sculptors and we will open in a few
weeks the first school of sculpture
monumental europe place
transmission of a popular culture that
was no longer taught place of
transmission of a spirit and well this
valley of saints at the end of the year
2018 according to the pace of attendance
current will exceed the number of four
hundred and thirty thousand visitors with
the goal even if it’s not an end
in itself one million visitors from here
four to five years
[Music]
[Music]
I
[Music]
this adventure is not an isolated case
almost a quarter of a century ago I
am attached to revive a very old
pilgrimage
the three breizh at the turn of brittany which
once invited every Breton to do
once in his life
the tour from this ancient cathedral
and current brittany quimper saint
lefron tréguier pol saint saint brieuc
malo dol valves is 800 km about a
months of walking because of 25 to 30
kilometers a day there too when he
was to revive
nobody believed it was not anymore
the time today just what we
did it is to put a new wine
in another very old ie
that we simply cut out this journey
cathedrals in cathedral to reason
of a step every year is today
tro Breizh well as walking
collective and the biggest march
collective over such a long period
that is to say on a week in France
if I tell you that it’s simply
to tell you that where there is a
will there is a way and this is the
why I would like
you associate a project that will be
certainly one of the adventures the
more exciting 21st century
during this adventure this is what
I call the city of peace so I
told you earlier that I was
philosophy teacher so I have
started my career
there is already some time it was in
1976 the other millennium cooperating in
north cameroon on the highlands of
the adamaoua at 1200 meters of altitude in
full country muslim young teacher
without experience
without a working library without
photocopier without internet without
television phone once a
week and mail and at the pace of
bottles to the sea but classes to
fifty students who studied at night
in the light of the lampposts there was the
real life at the same time to train the
first crews of the young history
from Cameroon
and when I went back to Cameroon he
a few years ago as a tourist this
Once I was upset to see
the evolution of the country
You have to know that Cameroon is a
Africa in miniature there are a hundred
of ethnicities a hundred tribes and
each has or had a type
of vernacular architects well
specific
lessard and fulbé the kasubi of the
mosses goom the pygmies’ huts and
when I actually came back
all this had disappeared replaced by
brick and sheet metal houses
pathetic caricature of modernity
unsuited to the climate it dies of hot there
below leading to debt
whereas in the past, materials
natural cost nothing and create
solidarities of builder all a
heritage vernacular architecture
was disappearing
the idea was to make a
conservatory of architecture
traditional Cameroonian
while he is still UNESCO
pulls the alarm bell
soon everything will be erased so i’m going to
yaoundé the capital of cameroon i
meet three ministers a rector
of university several mayors and I
very quickly recovers 500 hectares for
so build this conservatory of the
traditional architecture north
Cameroon
but in the meantime you follow the news
the deadly incursions of boko haram
from neighboring nigeria render
this project momentarily impossible in
any case
to be in parentheses and this
parenthesis well I decided to the
take advantage by modifying the project
that is to say, no longer simply doing
a conservatory of architecture
traditional Cameroon messin
conservatory of architecture
traditional world no longer a
Breton project but a global project
the idea being to bring together all the countries
of the world to build way exhibition
universal, but with a view to
perennial vocations the most
emblematic of architecture
vernacular earthen with houses
earth can last several centuries if
they are well maintained in stones
dry or wooden then this project
it’s simply a project that we
must drive on behalf of a requirement all
indeed legitimate obvious backup
a universal heritage in the name of the law
peoples with historical continuity
so this project will be a huge project
who will put on the same site that will do
to build on the same place young people and
young people from all over the world
every continent with bridges
that will open to eco projects
construction
to overcome both a knowledge
do ancestral and then the requirements
legitimate comfort and modernity
so since we have to prove the
movement when we walk we will start
next year, this first project
which will consist in building the first
boxes at the goal of Cameroon then the boxes
in goal they are boxes from 15 to 16
meters high
those who have fascinated andré gide
when he was passing through this
central african region and that it is
described elsewhere in his notebooks the
back from Chad
it does virtually no longer exists this
project will be called the city of peace
to make a memory of men and
women of peace from these different countries
for example for the boxes at the goal of the
Cameroon is good at promoting
builder will be placed under the patronage
Bishop Yves Plumey Bishops
bretons originates from the valves that I have
well- known murdered strangled a little
morning at his home in northern cameroon for
india houses it could mother
teresa from south africa mandela in a
universal companionship well we will do
sound the world champion in a
adventure that is relatively original
is in any case exciting and on this
vernacular architectural heritage
the ambition is to also graft everything
intangible heritage stories
legends the dances the kitchen the
clothes languages
so this project and you seem
impossible but precisely because he
is impossible we will do it we will
do that and that’s the reason why
I’m counting on you, I asked you
question just now remember the
oriental tale I asked you if there
have a word but you would have liked
to convey to the prince an important word
so for me it would be beautiful hat
a latin word
this world is beautiful this world is
beautiful I will bless the world said rimbaud
before dying in a hospital
marseille at the return of bettini then
for you for want of a word since I
did not have an answer it could be
a gesture an action an engagement a
earthen brick a board a stone
sweat to build this city of the
a landmark peace
I think of the words of baudelaire gp tri
from the boil I made some gold
great my only my primitive passion he
come on let’s go knead the mud of the
mother earth to build at a
fraternity found and our letter of
mission will be that admirable word of jean
I have thrown wheat at men
you will make enemies of them
give them a city to build you
will make brothers then the moment is
came
you know the kairos the Greek god
of the opportune occasion
he has wings to remind him
they walk very fast they run
is he a coup on the head for
to be able to catch it when it passes because
never go twice
do not let him pass
the time has come
the wind rises it is necessary to leave said the
philosopher vladimir jankélévitch then
this project of city of peace is the
first project will take place in the summer
next in brittany in a city that
are days in my head but I
will not tell you the name today
I simply ask you to remember
actually this date of summer 2008
2019 because I’m counting on you to build
this site and I thank you for it
advanced
[Applause]
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