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“I like to play with the spirit of the times”: Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange gives the keys to his “Archives Room”, on France Culture

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“I like to play with the spirit of the times†Â: Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange gives the keys to his “Archive Room†, on France Culture

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“I like to play with the spirit of the times”: Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange gives the keys to his “Archives Room”, on France Culture

Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange mobilizes his feelings and memories to explore “great French myths”. Photo Julien Pebrel/MYOP for Télérama

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DFrom a distance, his concept seemed a little dusty; Salle des archives, a program imagined by Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange, appeared on the France Culture schedule in September 2024. But, as soon as we delved into it, the originality of tone of these stories dedicated to “the great French myths” caught our attention seduce. Using very carefully crafted writing, which sometimes calls on his own memories and feelings, the producer weaves with a guest, around selected extracts, a heritage saga with literary accents. With a very wide range of subjects, some predictable, others totally unexpected: from Marcel Pagnol to Mylène Farmer, from Notre-Dame

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