Several cities have declared candidates to welcome this establishment. The partisans of Limoges did not loosen against Parisian centralism.
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And at the end, paris who wins. After several months of hesitation, Emmanuel Macron chose the capital to welcome the future house of the press and satirical drawing, intended to support the action of caricature professionals. A presidential decision that causes the anger of the competing cities, and in particular the supporters of the candidacy of Limoges, which denounce a “fact of the prince” before the official announcement, expected on Tuesday, January 11, during a speech of M . Macron at the end of the afternoon in front of the presidential press association.
The decision to create a house in the press drawing was taken by the Head of State at the Fifth Anniversary of the Attack of Charlie Hebdo, perpetrated on January 11, 2015. “France is always alongside (… ) of those who defend freedom of expression, “Macron said, during his wishes to the press, on January 15, 2020, ensuring that the new national establishment would be” a meeting place, training, exhibition. ” “We are a country where freedom to criticize goes with the freedom to speak,” he justified. In September, the Ministry of Culture had unlocked 2 million euros to finance the place.
After the 2015 presidential announcement, several cities had declared a candidate to welcome the house of the press drawing: Paris, Strasbourg and Limoges – the latter associated with the neighboring village of Saint-Just-le-Martel (high- Vienna), where, since 1982, the International Exhibition of Caricature, Press Drawing and Humor since 1982. A candidate time, Bordeaux had thrown the sponge after the municipal elections of June 2020, the new Mayor, Pierre Hurmic (EELV), not wishing to compete with limoges, according to him more legitimate to accommodate the center.
The candidature of Paris was notably supported by authors of Charlie Hebdo. In an open letter published on September 5, many of them considered it necessary to choose a Parisian place to “defend [the] language [of the press drawing], broadcast it, make it accessible to all” and “accompany the designers, Do not leave each other alone teachers and associations “. “It is no longer lacking your commitment, that of the state, which would be other than respect for the given word,” wrote the signatories, among which Maryse Wolinski, the widow of the designer murdered, at the address of the President of The Republic.
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In Limoges, the expertise of the region is put on the defense of the press drawing. In fact, the city of Saint-Just-martel, a distance of ten kilometers from the capital Limousine, welcomes for forty years a festival on the subject and already has an international center of caricature, with a collection of some 10 000 original press drawings, entrusted by illustrators from around the world, as well as 30,000 journals and newspapers. The idea of the promoters of the project was to entrust this collection at the house drawing house, which would have been located in Limoges and to keep the festival in Saint-Just-Le-Martel.
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