PRESIDENT ON INAUGURATION SPEECH Speech delivered on March 6, 2009 at the cocktail of inauguration of the House and signed Célières Letter of commitment MLNC -Hall.
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Mayor,
Madam Vice-President of the South Province,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends
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We here at the end of a long road. And, like many men and women gathered here this evening, I feel hopeful because I know there's no end in itself, result that is an opportunity for re -beginning with new challenges and new adventures to live.
Many strides have been made, many words have already been say. I will go straight to the point.
To make sure first that Célières Renee was happy and proud to see his house renovated to become one day the House of the Book of New Caledonia. She loved to read, and his generosity, altruism is naturally concerned with the love of words and the world, commitment and selflessness.
To tell you also that New Caledonia is not only a pebble or nickel this huge lagoon that we want all humanity. Of New Caledonia is also a land of creation, the bearer of songs, poems, lyrics and dances, a living heritage that we must continue to promote unabated.
In this book House, home town and crossroads of art, everyone should be able to come to finally realize the wealth of existing betting on the potential of our youth, finger and heart novels, anthologies, essays, New to better understand the world, their world and become, fiction and friction, such as packing and flint, more alive, more human.
creation in general and literature in particular gives meaning to our lives. Give read and write, is to allow everyone to recognize and be recognized. The literature also leads us to think and be exceeding our limits. She finally reconciles both sides of our identity: that which brings us back to the past, our heritage, and one that encourages us to dream and to build a common future.
creation enhances our ability to understand our ability to live together. Guarantor and light of our memories, it promotes mutual understanding, the recomposition of links, the cultural and social diversity. It helps to dissipate gradually misunderstandings, reduce tensions, it participates the recognition and enhancement of populations.
The opening of the House of the Book, is not across the country, everyone will understand, a harmless event. This space intentionally installed in an emblematic place in the heart of Faubourg Blanchot, will become a hub of entertainment, creativity and resources, whose actions should not fail to apply both the North and the Islands. Be
, Mr. Mayor, your place of deep gratitude to our side and all the institutional partners that have shaped this project: the Government, the State, provinces. The time for reflection is over. It is now for these communities to take together, for their financial commitments, the sustainability of this house not only of stone and metal, so long ago, I would say, echoing Anne Bihan pronounced formerly at the foot of the Mwa Ka, for a long time "on cave walls, on the desert sand in the wind of night, the crackling fire and onto their skin, men feel the need to enter something . And the equally powerful desire to stretch their voice to heaven and to other men. "
Frédéric Ohlen
