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TOM BRADY Returns to the NFL

The spirit of

GASPARD ULLIEL Will hover over the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Queen

ELIZABETH II

French actor

VINCENT LINDON

Presides the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival

Celebrates platinum jubilee for her 70 years of reign

Olympic Games

BEIJING 2022

YVES SAINT LAURENT

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Editorial

The Olympic lesson

espite the epidemic threat and the very unfavorable climatic conditions, the world finally succeeded in holding its Olympic Games this year. Beijing has succeeded in its bet by organizing this event on the scheduled date, to the delight of lovers and other winter sports enthusiasts. The Chinese gave a great lesson in determination to be there and organized a most successful party. The athletes also rose to the occasion. They showed a desire and rage to resist everything in order ro offer the public a great Olympic competition. Indeed, neither the Covid-19 nor the difficulties of preparation got the better of these heroic sportsmen who, on occasion, gave us great shows and sports performances and achieved many records. However , there is another lesson to be learned from this global event given to us this time by Norway, this Nordic country of 5 million inhabitants which won these Olympic Games loud and clear for the 2nd time. This great performance is due not only to the talent of its athletes, but also to the Norwegian school system which values sport so much. The small Scandinavian country has

clearly succeeded in conveying its cultural values and ancestral traditions in a discipline that has made it a great Olympic nation today. This is to say to what extent man is capable of resisting all misfortunes and achieving all exploits, if he puts forward his human qualities and his humanist values. He can thus conquer everything as long as he shows of course determination, a desire to win, union and mutual aid... During these Beijing Olympics, we saw everything in addition, images and slogans embodying sharing, fair play, gender parity, living together, etc. Values that remain just as important as they guarantee a peaceful and better life for all people of this planet. Our magazine Glamour Fashion and Beauty can therefore only rejoice and applaud all the good initiatives tending to promote this kind of values which are the credo, such as that of Unesco currently rebuilding the famous Al-Nouri mosque, as well as other places of worship in the city of Mosul in Iraq. This commendable gesture in more than one way is to be welcomed, because it will strengthen the culture of tolerance and promote dialogue and living together between all

religions around the world. When one is imbued with such values, one could only show oneself, moreover grateful to all those who have bequeathed to humanity beautiful science, literary or artistic works. The great homage paid these days to the famous couturier Yves Saint Laurent in Paris is an edifying example. In addition to this duty of recognition, humanist values also recommend that we show sensitivity to human tragedies and show solidarity with people who suffer from the horrors of war. In this edition , we must warmly welcome the position of Ukrainian and Russian artists who reacted quickly to denounce this war between their two countries.Their messages of sympathy towards all victims and their cries to put an end to this conflict show once again, that art and culture are much more noble than all policies, especially those that lead to war and tragedy in the world. Hayet Medjdoub

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Contents

QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty

CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES 10

The future Queen Consort

Discovering WALES

TOM BRADY

SUPER BOWL

VINCENT LINDON

VIRGINIE EFFIRA

NAOMI JUDD

GASPARD ULLIEL

YVES SAINT LAURENT

WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES

BEIJING

CESAR 2022

The legendary and best American football player

The big game of the 2022 final

President of the jury 2022

Mistress of ceremonies

Loss of a singer

Tragic disappearance

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of his first fashion show

Beijing 2022

City of myths and contrasts

The 47th Cesar 2022 ceremony

AFRICA CUP

AL-NOURI IN MOSSOUL

MOTHER TONGUE LANGUAGE DAY

Congratulations to Senegal for their first coronation

Reconstruction of the Mosque

Preserve all languages in the world

CHEMSOU BELARBI

A young talented painter of film posters and portraits

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Tourism BEIJING City of myths and contrasts...

Art

YVES SAINT LAURENT It’s been 60 years since Yves Saint Laurent gave his very first fashion show. It happened exactly at 30 bis rue Spontini in Paris and the young couturier was barely 26 years...

Sport Olympic Games Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, China has finally won its bet by organizing the 2022 Winter Olympics...

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VINCENT LINDON President of the jury 2022

rench actor Vincent LINDON will preside over the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival which will take place from May 17 to 28, 2022. He will be surrounded by members of juries composed of: Director, producer Jeff Nichols (United States), The actress, producer , screenwriter and director Rebecca Hall (USA/UK), actress Jasmine Trinca (Italy), actress Deepika Padukone (India), director, screenwriter and producer Asghar Farhadi (Iran), director, producer Joachim Trier (Norway), actress Noomi Rapace (Sweden), director, screenwriter, producer and actor Ladj Ly (France). B. D © Photography by Anh Viet Chau GF&B MAGAZINE | Issue 10

VIRGINIE EFFIRA mistress of ceremonies

ranco-Belgian actress Virginie Effira will be the mistress of ceremonies at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The actress will present the opening and closing evening of the Festival which will take place from 17th to 28th of May 2022. Virginie Effi was present at Cannes 2021 alongside director Paul Verhoeven, in 2022 she won the César for best actress for her role as Benedetta. Virginie Effira was voted Women of the Year 2013 by GQ magazine. B. D

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The spirit of

Gaspard ULLIEL

Will hover over the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

aspard Ulliel, is a French actor and model who died on January 19, 2022. This bad news fell like a cleaver for the French, especially in the world of cinema and the arts. It produced a wave of emotion among the friends of the deceased and his fans, as the artist was so young and so ambitious. The actor would have died, it was announced, in a ski accident at the resort of La Rosière, in Savoie. According to witnesses, he was the victim of a collision with another skier at the intersection of two blue slopes, those of the Tétras and that of Gélinotte. This area is known, however, as not very dangerous for people who are used to practicing this winter sport. The death of this young artist surprised and caused a considerable stir in the world of cinema and among his millions of fans,the actor despite his young age, was a star who managed to conquer millions of hearts of moviegoers around the world. «Gaspouille», as his friends liked to call him, was indeed crowned with success and distinctions. Since he started his acting career in 1996, he had a remarkable career. He was able, for example, to obtain the César for best male for his role in «A long engagement Sunday», when he was barely twenty years old, in 2014 he played the great couturier Yves Saint Laurent in the film, «Saint Laurent». A few

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years later, precisely in 2017, he did it again by receiving the César for best actor for his performance in «Juste la fin du monde». He was appointed in 2019, member of the jury of the 45th American Film Festival of Deauville, chaired by Catherine Deneuve. Gaspard was known, moreover, in the world of modeling. He regularly participated in parades, such as the Paris Fashion Week. As he did not often fail to take part in advertising campaigns tending to promote all kinds of brands of luxury products.In view of all this successful career, it must be said that his disappearance constitutes an immeasurable loss for the world of art. This is why they more than a thousand people on January 27 at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris to attend his funeral. One could notice, among other present , the members of his family and his many actor friends like Jérémie Renier. There were also illustrious personalities from the world of cinema such as Catherine Deneuve, Nathalie Baye, Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Anna Mouglalis, even Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Huppert and many others who all wanted to

be present to make their farewell to the multi-talented French actor. Gaspard Ulliel was only 37 years old. Finally, we inform our readers, and particularly the fans of the deceased young actor, that his latest film has been selected to be among the seventeen films added by Cannes festival officials in its 2022 edition. It will be screened during this event which will take place from May 17 to 28. This means that despite his disappearance, the shadow of this multi-talented artist will hang over the city of Cannes this year, through the presentation of his film «More than ever» in this major cinematographic event. F. M

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of

YVES SAINT LAURENT First fashion show Six museums host the event

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t’s been 60 years since Yves Saint Laurent gave his very first fashion show. It happened exactly at 30 bis rue Spontini in Paris and the young couturier was barely 26 years old at the time. However, the event was a great success and Yves managed to attract, from his baptism of fire, a select audience represented by illustrious personalities such as the Countess of Paris, Princess Anne, Baroness de Rothschild, Roland Petit , Zizi Jeanmaire, Geneviève Fath, Françoise Sagan and many other Parisian fashion professionals.

This year and to pay homage to Yves, this native of Oran (Algeria) who died, on June 1st of 2008, je should be remembered, we decided to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his first fashion show. Six museums have been chosen to house, from January 29th to May 15th various exhibitions retracing the life and work of this man. These are the Center Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Louvre Museum, the Orsay Museum, the Picasso-Paris National Museum and the Yves Saint Laurent Paris Museum.

will undoubtedly appreciate the content, because Yves was an outstanding draftsman. Alongside the exhibition of masterpieces, the Yves Saint Laurent Museum will house part of the archives of the fashion house belonging to the late couturier. These documents, the majority of which are unpublished, will allow the public to understand the manufacture of the models, but also the creative process of designing the Mondrian dress.

It shows that the exhibition The public will therefore have dedicated this year to Yves is Since then, began a long and plenty of time to discover the thought of as an archipelago, brilliant career of the man who exhibited works of this fashion encouraging the public to create was called «the little prince of genius. At the Musée d’Orsay, their journey from one museum fashion». Yves was able, during for example, will particularto another by leading them ly appreciate all the dresses his life, to upset the fundameninto hitherto unknown or new tal codes by operating multiple created for the Bal Proust for spheres. stylistic revolutions. He will say the Baronne de Rothschild and According to Madison Cox, one day: «Fashions pass, style Jane Birkin. Can also go to the president of the Pierre Bergé is eternal». But what makes Center Pompidou to see more Yves Saint Laurent Foundation his genius the most is his abiclosely the famous Mondrian and one of the main organizers lity and above all his gift for dress or this famous orange of the event, the contribution of always designing and creating dress with a full skirt with gymore than one place to house ratory patterns exhibited in the totally new things, sometimes and exhibit the work of the middle of kinetic paintings by daring and offbeat, such as the great couturier is explained by Sonia Delaunay. Mondrian dress, the women’s the desire to innovate in this At the Louvre, visitors will find field, but also by the wish to tuxedo, the cabans, the Safari Le Cœur, this favorite jewel that pay a great tribute to the late arjackets, etc… tist whose creations will remain Saint Laurent designed in the forever timeless. The delicacy and elegance that 1960s and which he had worn he puts into the making of his by one of his muses in all his The Glamour Fashion and dresses, to the delight of the fai- fashion shows. rer sex, have made him famous Beauty Magazine warmly in France and around the world, As for the Museum of Fine thanks the Pierre Berger so much so that he is consideYves Saint Laurent Foundation Arts, the organizers exhibited red, with Coco Chanel, like the there, in addition to the clofor their cooperation. thes, a series of 350 sketches greatest couturier of the 20th representing the models that century. And it was certainly F. M no coincidence that in 1983 his this great couturier had chosen outfits entered the Metropolitan for his last retrospective show in 2002. The public will learn Museum of Art in New York, making him the first designer to about the genesis and the stages be exhibited in his lifetime in a by which the model maker implemented his artistic work. He fine arts museum. GF&B MAGAZINE | Issue 10

« Mon arme est le regard que je porte sur mon époque et sur l’art de mon temps » - Yves Saint Laurent. « Tout homme est obligé pour survivre d’avoir, comme dit Nietzsche, des fantômes esthétiques. La vie n’est possible que grâce à eux. Je pense les avoir trouvés en Mondrian, Picasso, Matisse mais aussi et surtout en Proust. Je suis tout à fait éclectique. » - Yves Saint Laurent « Je crois que le travail du couturier approche beaucoup celui d’un artiste. J’ai d’ailleurs constamment puisé une qualité d’inspiration dans le travail des peintres contemporains : Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian… » – Yves Saint Laurent. « Toujours influencée par la peinture, je dois ma collection de juillet 66 aux peintres américains comme Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein. Toutes mes robes étaient éclairées de paysages, de lunes et de soleil. » – Yves Saint Laurent. « Poliakoff et Mondrian m’ont apporté un rajeunissement et un rafraîchissement extraordinaires: ils m’ont appris la pureté, l’équilibre » – Yves Saint Laurent. 42

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Yves Saint Laurent Photographer: Jeanloup Sieff Title: Portrait of Yves Saint Laurent, 1971 CREDIT: © Estate of Jeanloup Sieff © Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN- Grand Palais /

Yves Saint Laurent Sketches of headdresses made for the Ball des Têtes, given by Baron Alexis de Rédé to the Hôtel Lambert in Paris, June 23, 1957 Yves Saint Laurent Museum Paris © Yves Saint Laurent @ Nicolas Matheus

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THE FONDATION PIERRE BERGÉ YVES SAINT LAURENT Taking after the haute couture house, the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent was established in 2002 and is led today by Madison Cox. Its primary mission is to preserve and promote the work of Yves Saint Laurent.

The Work of Yves Saint Laurent In 2017, with the opening of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent started a new chapter by doubling the space visited by the public and focusing its program of exhibitions solely on Saint Laurent’s body of work. “I have always said that memories should be transformed into projects, and that is what we have done with this Foundation. 2017 marks a new chapter with the opening of two Yves Saint Laurent museums in Paris and Marrakech. Thus continues the journey we began

Henri Matisse, The Romanian Blouse, 1940 Oil on canvas Gift of the artist to the State, 1953

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so long ago, when we didn’t know what fate had in store for us.” — Pierre Bergé From Haute Couture House to Foundation In 1974, the Yves Saint Laurent haute couture house, based at 30 bis rue Spontini since it was established in 1961, relocated to a Second Empire-built hôtel particulier at 5 avenue Marceau. Yves Saint Laurent worked within its walls for nearly thirty years. At a press conference on January 7, 2002, Saint Laurent announced his decision to retire and close his haute couture house. Two years later, following extensive renovation of the building, the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent opened its doors. The non-profit organization has three main goals : – The preservation of haute couture and ready-to-wear clothing and accessories, sketches for the collections, relevant documents, and various drawings and objects related to Saint Laurent’s body of work; – The organization of exhibitions devoted to fashion, painting, photography, the decorative arts, contemporary art, and Saint Laurent’s work, both in its own exhibition spaces and at other institutions in France and abroad; - The support of cultural institutions and projects.

Yves Saint Laurent Set inspired by Henri Matisse Fall-Winter 1981 Wool cheesecloth blouse embroidered with sequins, seed beads and chenille; velvet skirt; velvet belt and trimmings.

Composition in Red, Blue and White II, 1937 Piet Mondrian (known as), Mondriaan Pieter-Cornelis (18721944) Oil on canvas Public domain Location: Paris, Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art - Center for Industrial Creation Photo © Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. NMR-Large Palace / Jacques Faujour

Yves Saint Laurent Dress Tribute to Piet Mondrian Ecru wool jersey, black, red, yellow and blue inlays Fall-Winter 1965 Yves Saint Laurent Museum Paris © Yves Saint Laurent @ Nicolas Matheus

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Gary Hume, The Moon, 2009 Lacquer paint on aluminum panels

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Yves Saint Laurent Dress Tribute to Tom Wesselmann Fall-winter 1966 Purple, black and pink wool jersey.

YSL (2269) Long evening outfit. Bronze satin overcoat and emerald satin dress Fall-Winter 1992

YSL (2274) Long evening set Sun satin overcoat and fuchsia satin dress Fall-Winter 1992

YSL (2273) Long evening set Buttercup satin overcoat and absinthe green satin dress Fall-Winter 1992 and 1995

Raoul Dufy, the electricity fee 1973 250 panel, oiled on plywood, work commissioned by the Parisian company of electricity, distributed for the palace of electricity and light during the international exhibition of arts and techniques of 1937 © Pierre-Antoine GF&B MAGAZINE | Issue 10

WINTER OLYMPICS Beijing 2022

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The National Stadium (AKA Bird’s Nest) built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. GF&B MAGAZINE | Issue 10

Beijing, China. 08th Feb, 2022. Nathan Chen of the USA, performs during Men’s Single Figure Skating competition in the Capital Indoor Stadium at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on , February 8, 2

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Nathan Chen of the U.S. (C) waves wearing his gold medal during the medals ceremony for the Men’s Single Figure Skating final at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Thursday, February 10, 2022.

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Teshima After a double degree in cooking and sommellerie in Japan, Ryuji Teshima followed a first course in French cuisine restaurants in Tokyo before continuing his training in France, in Epernay. Perfectionist, he wishes to go further in the knowledge of the products. For nearly three years, in parallel with his work as a cook, he spent every Saturday in Hugo Desnoyer’s butcher’s shop to deepen his knowledge of meat and learn about the work of cutting. He joins the opening of the Terroirs d’Avenir boutiques on rue du Nil in Paris where he will hold the fish market. He travels to New York, Spain, Los Angeles. He learns, tastes, observes, discovers new universes and continues to refine his choices. In the summer of 2014, he opened the Restaurant PAGES with his wife Naoko, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Pages was first awarded a Michelin star in 2016. In 2017, he opened a Restaurant & Bar 116 next to Restaurant PAGES. Then, he created his central kitchen laboratory KITCHEN LABO gourmet caterer in 2021. His first pastry shop is planned for the beginning of 2022.

Welcome to PAGES, Chef TESHI’s first restaurant. Where luxury and originality, elegant design for a calm and warm atmosphere, The kitchen is in direct view of the dining room, separated by a single corridor. TESHI excels in fusing French and Japanese cuisines, using many Japanese cooking techniques in French dishes. Adress : 4, rue Auguste Vacquerie 75016 Paris TEL : 01 47 20 74 94 GF&B MAGAZINE | Issue 10

Reconstruction of the

Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul

osul, this second Iraqi city located in the north of the country, suffered for a long time from the war waged by DAECH in the Middle East during the period 2014 - 2019. In addition to thousands of victims, this historic city experienced, during this conflict, a fate of more appalling since it has been completely devastated by this ultra-radical terrorist organization which has sown chaos by transforming it into a veritable ghost town. Indeed, the images transmitted by the

various television channels showed a devastated city where only rubble could be seen. No public or private building has been spared the fury of extremists. Not even the prestigious Al-Nouri Mosque was left out; it was completely destroyed. By attacking this sacred place, the terrorist hordes of Daesh have shown their folly in ransacking, burning and demolishing everything. The organization has crossed the Rubican, arousing a wave of indignation both among Muslims and around the world. Because the Al-Nouri mosque, beyond its

religious symbolism, was a jewel of the 12th century belonging to the universal heritage of humanity. The act was so despicable and the discontent so great that it was decided, as soon as the city was taken back from the hands of Daesh, to quickly

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rebuild this emblematic mosque. This is how Unesco took the decision since 2018, for its reconstruction and rehabilitation, by launching an international competition prepared jointly with the Iraqi authorities and the Iraqi Sunni fund with the support of the United Arab Emirates, the main project donors.

This commendable initiative is in fact, part of a much more

ambitious project called «Reviving the Spirit of Mosul» and consisting in restoring all the historical monuments of the city. In this line, the UN organization and the Iraqi government have agreed to undertake the reconstruction of two churches in the old city of Mosul: the Syriac Catholic Church Al-Tahera and the conventual church al-Saaa known as «Our Lady of the clock». The aim of all these actions is to apparently revive the cultural and religious diversity of this historic city and spread hope to strengthen community cohesion throughout the country. Today, the reconstruction work of the mosque is going well and teams are busy to finalize it before the year 2023, date of the reception of the project. Admittedly,

the new design of the building has attracted some criticism from the inhabitants of Mosul, but this does not diminish the efforts of architects and other workers who want to make the mosque not only a religious building, but also a center of civilization. for Mosul and for all of Iraq. It will be equipped with an art school and will bring together all of Iraqi society in various cultural events. Glamour Fashion and Beauty can only welcome and applaud this kind of initiative which tends to strengthen the culture of tolerance and promote living together around the world. F. M

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International Mother tongue Language Day

Preserve all languages in the world

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People from different tribes and school students take part in a rally on the occasion of International Mother Language Day’, organized jointly by the Government of Tripura and the Assistant Ba. GF&B MAGAZINE | Issue 10

few days ago, the world celebrated Mother tongue Language Day. This year, the ceremony was placed under the theme “the use of technology for multilingual learning, challenges and opportunities», according to the wishes and recommendations of UNESCO’s officials. This theme chosen by this UN organization which, it should be remembered, is the one proclaimed for the first time in 1999 February 21 as International Mother tongue Language Day, tends in particular to exploit new technologies to improve multilingual education and supporting equitable and inclusive learning opportunities for all. The day was also used to recall once again, the need to preserve linguistic and cultural diversity, especially when we know that more than 43% of the languages spoken in the world - out of a total of 6700 languages, according to the figures of this organization - are threatened with extinction. It should also be noted that the languages most exposed to this risk are particularly the local or mother tongues which, for ideological or economic reasons, often find themselves in difficult situations due to a linguistic conflict opposing dominant languages to dominated languages. Situations that would soon precipitate their erasure from the global linguistic landscape. And yet it is these languages, the mother tongues that help transmit culture, values, traditional knowledge and ensure the promotion of sustainable futures. Humanity has finally understood that it has nothing to lose if it begins to preserve and perpetuate multiculturalism and multilingualism in the world. On the contrary, any natural language on earth that comes to disappear will constitute an immeasurable loss, because it is now considered to be part of the universal heritage. International Mother tongue Language Day is a time to highlight and reaffirm the importance of languages both spoken and written. It should also serve as an opportunity to draw attention to linguistic issues, but also to mobilize states and peoples to support the implementation of strategies and policies in favor of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in all regions of the world.

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«Languages are among the most precious, but also the most fragile treasures of humanity», said Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the former President of Iceland (1980-1996). It is therefore necessary to preserve them and protect them against linguistic conflicts and other attempts to make them disappear. We have every interest to do so, because a language, beyond the fact that it is the main vector of culture and civilization, is also to paraphrase the linguist , André Martinet, «a means of communication, a repertoire of thought and a mode of expression». This is why pedagogues never fail to value it since it plays an important role in the field of education. It is necessary, they often recommend, to rely on the language, in student’s life to facilitate the transmission and acquisition of knowledge, particularly during the first years of education. So it is urgent to preserve and watch over these precious treasures whose destiny seems quite fragile, to use the words of this great Icelandic woman. By this gesture, we will spread the culture of tolerance and living together, we will protect ourselves above all against linguistic differences which sometimes turn into armed conflicts. What is currently happening in Ukraine, beyond geostrategic issues, is perhaps also a question of cultural and linguistic intolerance. F. M

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