Praise of popular song, with Arsène (don't forget the lyrics)

Few people no doubt will remember 2020, marked with a black stone by the pandemic of Covid-19, with nostalgia: last year, articles of news, like those of the whole world, will have beenlargely imbued with this heaviness.In this context, I wanted to give voice to someone who can say without offending anyone who has experienced a formidable 2020 year: Arsène, a 22 -year -old Rouennais, has counted in recent months among the big maestrosDo not forget the lyrics, the musical game presented by Nagui on France 2.Winner of the Masters tournament in November after a remarkable course last spring, he was one of the revelations of the TV year, on the candidate side.The following exchange was carried out between the beginning of December and mid-January: it is a meeting, in the best sense of the word, with a young man who lived, thanks to his work, a rare adventure that will havetransformed its existence.Thank you, Arsène, for the confidence you have given me, and for all these confidences.Good luck (Normand of course))!An exclusive Words of News, lighter therefore.;-)) by Nicolas Roche.

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Praise of popular song,

with

Arsène

(Do not forget the lyrics))

Hello Arsène and thank you for accepting this interview for news words.We're going to talk about the show that made you known to you, but before that, what would you want our readers to know about you?

Hello, My name is Arsène, I am 22 years old and I am Rouennais.I study history at the University of Rouen, a city where I have always lived.I am currently in Master 2.

Two weeks ago, you win the Masters tournament, don't forget the lyrics.How did you experience this victory?

I am extremely proud of my victory at the Masters.I allow myself to say it because I worked a lot to get there.Of course, I was also lucky, and necessarily there is a share of luck, some of my competitors may have missed.

"I worked a lot to prepare masters,

I'm very happy that it paid,

beyond even my expectations.»»

I haven't released my efforts at all from my April TV passages.I continued to prepare for the masters all summer and all the start of the school year, several hours a day. Et I'm very happy that it paid, beyond even my expectations : j’avais l’espoir d’arriver en demi-finales et de gagner un peu d’argent, j’ai gagné les Masters et 112.000 € (the record of earnings for masters)).I couldn't dream better.

Does this victory have a particular flavor compared to your journey in the game?

I was necessarily a little disappointed to have lost in April.I will not come back to the controversies around the conditions of my defeat, it does not have to be here, but I think that all the maestros, whatever their earnings, are disappointed to lose, and the masters can be aopportunity to show that we are still there, in the game, and it's pretty good.

J’ai lu que tu avais pas mal écouté Nostalgie notamment, et évidemment révisé beaucoup de chansons, with l’humilité de dire qu’en tant qu’étudiant, c’était plus facile pour toi de dégager du temps pour cela.But still, it assumed a real discipline, right?What organization, and how many hours spent memorizing songs?

Yes, it requires a lot of method, organization and time.My learning method has refined.I have gained in method since I started learning songs.In all, it took me a little over a year and a half.

I started to learn songs by heart one by one just after my second casting, in 2018 (I had not been selected)).A lot of well -known titles like double I of Christophe Willem, Aziza of Daniel Balavoine, or that I love you by Johnny...I learned about 150 essential tubes for, the day I go to the show, be guaranteed to score a few points.

I realized as I learned well, that it remained engraved in my memory.And I feared a little to make a very low score in the show, a few points then leave.So I told myself that I had to learn as many songs as possible to reduce this risk.I didn't even think of making money, at that time, even less of becoming Maestro.

For a little over a year, I continued to learn songs, and it became like brain gymnastics that I liked.

I had a fairly precise method.I downloaded all the songs that fell into the game and that I did not know.It was, every other day, learning and revisions.The day "learning", I listened to two or three times the song I wanted to learn, no more, then I listened to other songs that I wanted to learn.The next day, I randomly revived a few songs from the playlist that I was supposed to know.Then I listened to two or three times those listened to the day before.I thought it was more effective than listening to the same song in one day thirty times.In this way, the song is making its way in our brain and is anchored in our memory in an almost painless way.I saw the list of my songs learned to grow, it was rewarding and encouraging.

Lors de mes premiers tournages, je suis ainsi arrivé with 900 chansons en tête.It has represented a lot of work.A year before my filming, I spent half an hour to three quarters of an hour a day, and in the last few weeks before, I was almost doing only on my days.Today, I know about 1150 songs.

Not bad indeed!What is more complicated, having to learn historical dates, or words of songs?Does the fact that these are in rhythm and music also help memorization?

It’s not really the same thing.I learned a few historical dates in school or college, when we are asked to learn dates by heart.Today, when we are at university, these things are anchored and we are no longer asked to learn by heart, except for end -of -year exams.

"What helped me learn songs,

It’s especially that I love it.»»

Ce qui m’a aidé à apprendre des chansons, It’s especially that I love it.I have listened to a lot of songs for a very long time.I am a fan of French variety.I listen to a lot of CDs, radio, and I have a vinyl plate.So I acquired a basic musical culture, so before learning songs for the show, without really trying to acquire it.So I did not experience this as learning a history course or a poetry.

What advice would you give to a person, young or less young by the way, who would like to seriously rub into this game, who is very popular?

I can send this person to the advice I just gave you.A rather painless method.But obviously, it will depend on the time it can have.

What helps is just like that.For me, after a while, it was becoming almost a drug. Quand je me levais le matin, j’allais faire ma balade de deux heures dans la forêt ou sur les quais de Seine à Rouen, with mes écouteurs dans les oreilles, et j’écoutais des chansons, beaucoup de chansons.These learnings are linked to me at good times.

You also have to be aware that there is a big chance of luck.Learning songs only reduces the share of luck and increasing that of merit.We may very well have learned 1,500 songs and only come across titles that we do not know.With, too, the risk of losing your means on a song, to stammer, which was really my nightmare, especially on a song that I knew.I would have worked for months for nothing.

To reduce this risk of losing their means, I advise candidates to multiply the karaoke in public (when possible!)) By avoiding looking at the words on the prompter, to test themselves.In any case, you have to devote a lot of time and work.

Just three years ago, we learned of the disappearance of Johnny Hallyday (question asked on December 5, 2020, editor's note)).Is he one of those artists you like and who inspire you?And what are they, these artists who have a special place for you?

Johnny Hallyday I like it, nothing more.It is obviously a sacred monster of variety and rock in France, a legend because of its vocal power, its pace, its physical beauty, its charisma, its longevity and its ability to cross eras andthe trends.We tend to forget it, but it also experienced small hollows, especially in the late 1970s and in the 2000s.

I like a lot of songs from him but I would not classify him among my favorite singers.I was marked by several singers, during successive periods of my life.

At one time, I really liked Joe Dassin.He sang popular hymns which were also quality titles, popular, intelligent and moving hymns.

I really like Claude François for his ability to cross, too, fashions and eras.His latest disco titles, Alexandria, Alexandra and Magnolias for Ever are really of quality, even the specialists say it.The orchestrations are highly sought after, in short, they are good songs.

When I was a teenager I also liked Hervé Vilard and Sheila, unpretentious popular singers that we denigrate a little today but that I like.

My favorite singer is Michel Sardou.For me, the largest French singer behind Johnny, and before Jean-Jacques Goldman.The head trio.

"I would dream of having Michel Sardou's voice.»»

The texts of Sardou are intelligent, the melodies composed for him are all very beautiful, and he has an exceptional voice that I would like to have, but I can always dream (he is tenor and I am not tenor so this dreamI can bury it)).Sardou is the "short" singer.He is neither the singer "rock" like Johnny, nor the singer "singer-songwriter" at the Goldman, nor the singer at Minettes like Patrick Juvet, nor the jazz singer like Michel Jonasz, etc....That's what I like.He is not looking to be specially original.He does song.

All these artists I have just mentioned, who had their hour of glory in the 70s and 80s, had this particularity of making popular songs, tubes that were quality songs.Today I find that it is a little either one or the other.Quality singers have a limited audience, and singers who are in the tops of sales are less good in my opinion.

What is your few favorite songs, the one you have known for a long time without having learned them and you sing, for once, for fun?

I'm going to quote you five, including one in English.I think it's a good choice.These are really songs that I love spontaneously, and that I did not need as you said to "work" specially for the show.

The first, one of the songs that I listened to the most in my life, and in any case in my adolescence, it is us (1979)) by Hervé Vilard.She was a huge tube when she came out, but, like many songs of that time (I think of Retraiens, Rêveries by Hervé Vilard, or certain titles of Sheila)), unjustly forgotten because very little disseminatedon radio.Even on nostalgia!

"Teen, I was a little groupie

From Hervé Vilard from the 70s.»»

I really like Hervé Vilard. Quand j’étais ado, j’étais un peu groupie From Hervé Vilard from the 70s, je le trouvais beau, bien coiffé (je rêvais d’avoir sa coupe de cheveux)).If I had been a singer, he was the one I would have liked to be at the time. Nous, c’est un peu la chanson qui a lancé sa deuxième partie de carrière, parce qu’il était déjà connu dans les années 60 with Capri c’est fini ou encore Mourir ou vivre.We are a slow that talks about a breakup, a very beautiful text by Claude Lemesle (who wrote in particular for Sardou, Reggiani, Joe Dassin...)) on a melody of Toto Cutno.For me this text is really poetic.Some bad languages will say that it is a bit easy poetry, "general public", but it is beautiful poetry."It is a cry torn from the sky, a ray that is missing in the sun".Me it speaks to me, and it makes a fairly poignant whole.

The second would be Marie-Jeanne, by Michel Sardou, in 1990. Son dernier gros tube (il en connaîtra un autre dans les années 2000 with La rivière de notre enfance, en duo with Garou)).This song is also a little forgotten today, because it is rare that it comes out when you ask someone to quote three or four songs from Sardou. Elle contient un peu tout ce que j’aime dans la chanson française, et chez Sardou en particulier : d’abord ce rythme assez dansant (j’aime la variété rythmée)) même si on ne danserait pas forcément sur cette chanson, cette alliance d’une mélodie planante (notamment sur le refrain)) with une orchestration très rythmée (guitares électriques, basses, synthé, boîte à rythmes...)).I also like the beautiful powerful voice of Michel Sardou, and this text in a disillusioned tone, on the passage of time: “The Marie-Laure, the Marie-Jeanne, in the smoke of my gypsy, what have our loves become?».He paints a somewhat acid portrait of all these women who have had childhood dreams that did not come true.This disillusioned tone corresponds enough to my character.

The third, she forgets me by Johnny Hallyday (1978)).Again, a tube of Johnny but not his biggest tube, not the one we would quote first.It is also one of the first great successes written by Didier Barbelivien who wrote a lot of success in the 1970s and especially 80s, which we will love, Mediterranean, etc....What I like in this text is that these are very simple words, where the narrator imagines what becomes a girl he knew and loved. Il imagine qu’elle l’oublie, with, dans les couplets, une succession de détails du quotidien écrits très simplement et qui sont assez parlants : “Demain matin, bien sûr, elle arrive à Paris, Elle retrouve les rues, ses parents, ses amis, Je lui donne trois semaines pour tomber amoureuse, Et devant son miroir, elle est déjà heureuse, elle m’oublie”.We necessarily think about it when we are in this situation, that of a breakup, or when one thinks of someone who has detached himself.

The fourth, make me a place by Julien Clerc (1990)).It is the least badly lotie of the four already cited, it has crossed the time and remains very well known.Julien Clerc composed the melody, and the text is signed Françoise Hardy. Comme beaucoup de chansons de Julien Clerc, elle est très mélodieuse, et le texte colle parfaitement à la voix de l’interprète, with son fameux vibrato. La chanson s’inscrit dans un album (“Fais-moi une place”)) que je trouve très bon (bien que je ne sois pas critique)), with beaucoup de belles chansons, des mélodies un peu planantes (je pense notamment à Le verrou, à Petit Joseph ou à Le chiendent)).

The fifth is a song in English but sung by a French singer, it is Spacer de Sheila.Before my period Hervé Vilard, I was very interested in Sheila's career, around 11 to 13 years old. J’aimais ses chansons, j’ai emprunté son best of à la médiathèque et je soûlais mes parents with elle en partant en vacances (rires)).What fascinated me at Sheila was her career, a bit like a fairy tale.She has had a very long career, even if she is a little disparaged today because she is one of those singers, such as Mireille Mathieu, Nana Mouskouri or Michèle Torr, who is considered to be a bit "Gnangnan".I like it. Ce sont des chansons populaires, qui pour certaines ont peut-être un peu mal vieilli, mais with des refrains accrocheurs, qui restent en tête, et qui sont pour la plupart bien écrites.

"I love Sheila, which we consider to be a bit

"Gnangnan" today.What fascinates me in

her career is that she married all the modes.»»

What fascinates me is that, in her career, Sheila has married all the modes. D’abord sa carrière yéyé, with ses couettes, puis sa coiffure bouffante, son espèce de “casque” with son kilt, ses petits chemisiers... Ensuite, les années 70 with ses cheveux longs, la période with Ringo, ses costumes moulants à paillettes, ses combinaisons pattes d’éléphant, et des chansons qui se rapprochaient de plus en plus de la vague disco. Vague qu’elle embrasse clairement with cette chanson donc, Spacer.A new start for her, because she was a little stuck in her slightly middle -style song register for mothers from the 70s of the 70s.She goes to the United States and meets there, I believe, the producer of the Chic group, who will make him this song which will have been a tube there.She no longer goes much on radio but she made it possible to discover a new face of Sheila, perhaps a little more in the wind.I like her melody who seems so obvious and "tubesque", this beautiful intro on the piano...I listened to this vinyl a lot!

Que retiendras-tu de cette expérience télé, je pense au contact with Nagui, les équipes du jeu et aux coulisses en général ? La télé, ça t’attire ?

I will try to answer two questions that people who know me quite often ask me, or even those I meet in the street: 1/ Is it nice Nagui?2/ Isn't that a shark environment, TV?

Is Nagui nice?I would have trouble answering, because I know little.It is not at all a reproach that I make him, most of the maestros are also in my case.He's a very busy man. La plupart de nos interactions with lui se font sur le plateau, devant les caméras.He comes to greet us before we arrive on the set, but we follow immediately after on the show.He seeks spontaneity, to discover us and is sincerely curious about people on the set.But then he quickly moves on.Again it is not a reproach: everything is linked very quickly, he must be interested in the following candidates, whether we are maestro or not elsewhere. Il ne reste pas en coulisses with nous pour boire un verre ou manger with nous, et forcément ne peut pas être très disponible.

J’ai toujours trouvé l’ambiance en coulisses très bonne, que ce soit with les Maestros ou with les candidats «normaux» (quand j’étais un candidat«normal»)).It's really very good child.We are all prepared, briefed, in small groups.Production, casting teams, etc....do everything to pamper us. On nous explique comment ça va se passer, comment se placer sur le plateau, comment être with Nagui, etc... On nous maquille, on nous coiffe, on choisit nos vêtements with la costumière.There is something to eat and drink.When the filming arrives, we wait for our turn, just behind the set. On voit Nagui et le candidat de dos, on chante en même temps que lui, on apprend à se connaître with les autres, on compare nos connaissances musicales...I have very good memories of this atmosphere, which helps to release the pressure before going on the set.And all this centered around French song, which brings us together all.

"Would I see TV?"I am not sure.»»

Very good memories therefore.However, would I make TV?I am not sure.There are people who find me relaxed on the set, but it is normal, we are candidates, highlighted by Nagui who asks us questions and seeks to bring out the best of ourselves.If he feels embarrassment, he moves on to something else, etc..I don't know if I would be comfortable working really on TV.

Est-ce que ce goût de la chanson et de la musique, que tu as démontré émission après émission, te donne envie (et peut-être est-ce déjà un projet)) de te créer ton propre univers musical ? D’ailleurs, est-ce que tu écris un peu, et est-ce que tu joues de la musique ?

Je peux dire qu’un de mes rêves plus ou moins assumés et précis serait d’être chanteur, mais uniquement chanteur à succès (rires)), je ne me vois pas galérer pendant 15 ans dans des petites salles.As in the singer of Balavoine, if I could make hits, winning Thuns, it would be good!

I started writing songs for the first time when I was 15 years old.I was doing one from time to time, it was not terrible, really, but I was trying to take inspiration from all the songs that I liked.I more or less dropped later, then I acquired advice books to write songs, including the art of writing a song by Claude Lemesle, a successful author that I quoted everything'hour.I read this book, watching advice on the Internet, etc....

"In terms of texts I write, there is still

from the way to do, but I see that

I improve, that it becomes drinkable.»»

In all, I had to write, from the start, around twenty songs.Of these twenty, four or five must be correct.But I notice that, no matter how much I write, it is really an exercise to which we can only progress.At the start, I was doing quite Nazi teenagers, but as I wrote, I avoided heaviness, I was turning my sentences better, and I see that I am only improving myself. Il y a encore du chemin, mais ça commence à devenir potable, si on imagine certains textes with de vraies mélodies.

These projects are clearing a little.After my broadcasts in April, I was contacted by a recording studio in eastern France held by one of the Maestros, Johanna. Elle m’a contacté, with son associé, pour me proposer de me faire un titre sur mesure (paroles, musique, éventuellement un clip)) gratuitement, parce que ça leur fait de la publicité de faire une chanson pour un Maestro.All the more so that I have won the masters.I accepted, but I told them I wanted to write the lyrics, because there are certain texts that I am satisfied.Responsible for finding a melody and arrangements.I sent them a text, of which I hold the secret content for the moment, but I will make a little ad when it comes out.They are currently working on accompaniment, on the basis of tracks that I have given them concerning the style I would like.I listened to several of their songs and I am sure what they will offer will give something good.

Writing a song is really a difficult exercise.It’s quite ungrateful because you can spend hours to lay one or two lines almost drinking.Sometimes we find nothing at all, that zero stuff, easy rhymes, miès things or on the contrary far too sophisticated for it to be good.And from time to time, almost on a misunderstanding, we come across a good stanza, an inspired verse.Many authors say it.I do not pretend to be Georges Brassens at all for the moment, but I know that he was spending whole days to scratch, to touch up, to start texts again...It's a little way of the cross, but when we get there, we are happy.So I don't relax my efforts!And maybe it will give something good in the future.

How do you look at this very special year for everyone who ends?Will you have changed you this year 2020?Perhaps reinforced in your confidence in you, and refined your prospects for the future?

This year 2020 was obviously good and even very good for me.

Déjà, financièrement parlant, with l’argent que j’ai gagné de mes émissions d’avril et des Masters... Partir dans la vie, à 22 ans, with plus de 300.000 € on the bank account, it is a very good chance. Je pense acheter de l’immobilier, des maisons ou des appartements (j’ai déjà commencé à faire des visites)), à les louer et à toucher les loyers.I could almost already live.Being rentier, I wouldn't bother me, spending my life reading books, watching movies and walking in the forest while almost receiving a salary.But that will probably not be the case, it takes ambition, or at least a requirement for oneself.Wanting to be done in something, and not living only on the fruits of a past work (whatever the size of the fruit)).

There is also a personal pride aspect.I know it doesn't see much when I go to the show, but I don't have great self -confidence. Sans trop rentrer dans des détails psy (je n’ai pas été maltraité par la vie, mes parents gagnent bien leur vie et j’ai toujours été chouchouté et protégé)), disons que j’avais envie d’accomplir une grande chose.I had tried to go back to Sciences Po after my baccalaureate, I had made a prep for a year and had not been taken, it had been a fairly big shock because until then I succeeded in everything I had undertaken. Quand on est jeune, on côtoie d’autres jeunes qui semblent meilleurs que soi, with plus d’argent, maîtrisant plus d’activités, with davantage de projets et d’enthousiasme, un plus grand succès dans leurs relations sentimentales... Et parfois j’ai pu souffrir de cette comparaison with d’autres, ayant un regard très sévère sur moi-même.

"I have often lacked self -confidence.

It's better, since the show...»»

It is certain that, since April 1, 2020, the date of my first show, it is better, and I am very happy, because I know that I would have been unhappy if I had lost at that time.As a more blow, additional failure.There it is fine, and even very well.I have a much more benevolent look at myself, almost a feeling of fullness because that, this challenge, I have the feeling of having succeeded and even successful.I want anyone to prove what he can give after several years of hard effort (well, ok, it's a bit of a capitalist Protestant, the American dream, but it remains true)).Being rewarded the fruit of your work is just wonderful.

Would you ambition, it would in any case be one of the logical consequences of your M2 in history, to teach history-geo, or would you see yourself doing more historical research?

As I could tell you, I am in M2 research in history and I make a memory on a French political party.These studies have no outlet, apart from chaining on a doctorate, passing the aggregation or capes, but this is not what I plan to do.I will probably do another master's degree, more professionalizing.I do not know too much in what, but perhaps more in political science in the broad sense.And to see, if I start well in a musical career, I might be satisfied with this musical career.We'll see.In any case, I will have the income of my rents which will very advantageously complement my musical income, knowing that artists' income is often precarious.

Next year, I may take a sabbatical year for a year to think about what I want to do, travel a little and put my real estate investments on track.

This question, I asked her a few years ago, a little less now but I can't help it to a story in history.A slightly crazy scientist who will be called Doc ’has just developed a time and space travel machine.You are entitled to a single trip, 24 hours or perpetual if affinities.Where and when would you go for a walk?

I would like to be transported, still in France, but in these times when France was powerful and glorious. Le problème, c’est que ces époques ne coïncident que rarement with des moments où il faisait bon vivre.In the time of Louis XIV, France was first in Europe but there were a lot of wars, people were hungry and cold...Napoleon I, ditto, France dominated whole Europe and had pushed its borders, but it was war all the time, so we were quite likely to die on a field of battle.Let's say that power and glory are not easy.

There were periods when the leaders gave the French the feeling that we were a great power, while sparing peace and prosperity.I am thinking in particular of the Second Empire, which fascinates me. J’aime ces temps où il y a un règne assez long, with un homme à poigne (c’est mon côté bonapartiste)), un Napoléon Ier, un Napoléon III ou un De Gaulle.France was radiant during the Second Empire, on the cultural and economic levels.France may have been the world's leading economic power at that time. Et elle ne remportait pas alors particulièrement de victoires militaires, mais au moins, il y avait la prospérité, with un empereur qui a régné longtemps et avait une fibre sociale très prononcée.No doubt he sincerely believed in democracy, even if of course he did not really apply it.

" Why choose ?I love Hervé Vilard,

et j’aime la bombe atomique !»»

- - -

"I have a nostalgia for the years of Gaulle,

Pompidou, start giscard...The last period

where France was great...»»

I also think of the years of Gaulle and Pompidou, and at the beginning of the Giscard years.The last period where France was great.Before the decline.There, I deliver totally and without eyeshadow the react which is in me, I do not even try to hide it (laughs)). De Gaulle, ce sont des institutions politiques fortes, with un président fort qui fait finalement la synthèse entre notre histoire monarchique et nos institutions républicaines.I think that is when France found its balance.It is also the period of the atomic bomb, and of France motor power of Europe.It was not really the Franco-German couple, but rather French jockey and the German horse, which is not quite the same thing.It was also the time when we had 5% growth per year, when we saw the workers spending their holidays on the Côte-d'Azur, when Hervé Vilard released his first 45 laps, just like Sheha.The time when you could be a high school teacher and have a holiday home in Savoy, a boat in La Rochelle and an apartment in the XVIth, and it was normal!

Pompidou was the same, he was on the same step.I have a special affection for him.

Et with tout ça, est-ce que tu te sens malgré tout bien dans tes baskets à notre époque ?

I would be tempted to tell you that I, my favorite era, were the 70s and 80s, in any case on the musical level.I also think of everything that is clothing, cars, etc....But the problem is that, if I lived at that time, I would not like my time either, and I would rather return to the 1950s.It’s endless, it’s my innate dandym that makes me recognize myself in times that we would consider today as cheesy.Transporting me in another era, that would not be enough.So in the end I am not so bad in mine.

"What bothers me most today is the politician

tically correct, the ambient well-thought...»»

Ce qui me gêne le plus aujourd’hui, et là c’est encore un peu ma petite fibre de réac’ qui parle, c’est le politically correct, the ambient well-thought qui fait qu’on ne peut plus dire grand chose, comme si la société n’était plus qu’une juxtaposition de communautés toutes plus fragiles, plus meurtries et plus nobles les unes que les autres, que ce soient les communautés ethniques, religieuses, sexuelles...Everything that is not white male, 40 years old, French of strain, catho and hetero...As if we were in a naphthalin universe, where everyone is ultra-capable, where everyone is in sugar actually.It’s just if we dare to imitate Joe Dassin on TV, because it’s mean for people who are lancing...

Well, I may be exaggerating a little: I must have the honesty to recognize that in my daily life, we are still free.I don't complain, we are not in the Soviet Union, or in the midst of a cultural revolution.But still, we feel like a background blade from the United States which is increasingly present, in the media, in universities, and among people in general.More and more inclusive writing, semantic precautions so as not to shock this or that segment of the population...This is what grieves me the most in our time.But other than that, it's okay!

For this question, will no doubt tell me that you will take a third way, which will be yours, but go, for fun, to choose, rather Arsène Lupine, or Arsène Wenger?

It's funny because I really think that the first name we are given participates in forging a personality.Arsène is a bit like the name of the Dandy Gentleman and it seems that it suits me quite well.As if by chance, the other two Arsène I know, those you have mentioned, are also fairly elegant gentlemen.I know absolutely nothing about football, but Arsène Wenger is tall, slender, fine and elegant, and it is sometimes said that I have these qualifiers!Arsène Lupine, obviously, is the Dandy Gentleman par excellence.It is also a label that people associate with me quite well.I will therefore make no choice between the two.;-))

A few words to make us want, after the confinement of course, to visit your city of Rouen occasionally?Because working in tourism can very well be one of your future prospects.;-))

I think Rouen is the most beautiful city in the world.And no, I am not at all biased by saying this. (Rires)) Bon, évidemment j’exagère...

I really like my city, always, and I realize more and more.I become more and more aware of the beauty of this city, its assets, its pleasant character.It is an average city, quite normal from the great suburbs of Paris, a bit like Orleans, Troyes, Reims, Amiens, Tours or Le Mans.I think that of all these cities, Rouen is perhaps the most independent, the least "vassal" in Paris. C’est une ville portuaire et presque maritime, with ses marées, ses mouettes, son port céréalier, un des premiers d’Europe...

Rouen is a rather large city but which has all the advantages of an average city on a human scale.Its center is very reduced, you can go from one point to another on foot without problem. C’est une ville médiévale, with des rues à pans de bois qui font la notoriété de la ville.It was partly destroyed during the Second World War.A part, especially on the docks of the Seine, consists of islets of buildings of three or four floors reconstructed in a fairly harmonious way.

"For me, the Cathedral of Rouen

is the most beautiful in the world.»»

The nail of the city remains its cathedral, which I love. Pour moi, c’is the most beautiful in the world.It is the largest in France (151 meters, by its arrow)).It has even been, for a few years, the highest monument in the world - is unjustly forgotten!-, outdated I believe in the 1880s by Cologne Cathedral.She is slender, rated, elegant...A bit like me!(Laughs))

Rouen is worth the detour, really!

The Cathedral of Rouen, by Arsène Himself!

One last word ?

Je te remercie, parce que c’est rare qu’un site d’articles assez sérieux (sujets d’actu, culturels et historiques)) s’intéresse à un candidat d’émission de divertissement.It’s a great initiative that goes a bit against cultural snobbery.It shows your openness, your curiosity, and I appreciated this exchange.

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