The Brasero magazine offers us its annual meeting. You know it, we are
at number 4, fuchsia color, with always an exceptional typography,layout and a pleiad of contributors. A moment of emotion to read the
tributes to Annie Le Brun, Claire Auzias, Daniel Blanchard and Ronald
Creagh. ---- Anne Steiner opens fire with an article devoted to the
prostitution of minors in the Belle époque. She dismantles the process
of takeover by pimps on these destitute young boys and girls. The
illustrations translate the violence of human relationships, even the
parents praised their children... As we said with Anne in a recent
broadcast of Au fil des pages on Radio libertaire, the Belle époque for
whom? The gigolettes, the little Jesus were easy prey evoked in novels
like Rue Pigalle by Francis Carco, Bubu de Montparnasse by Charles Louis
Philippe.
Charles Reeve offers us an analysis of the rise of fascism with an
article entitled Education for Subjugation at a time when social
democracy is in crisis in the face of self-organization practices.
Fascism was the result of ambiguous statements and opportunistic
practices, sometimes incoherent, relying on the State. We look forward
to the second part of the article.
A fascinating article concerns the works of Simon Leys, in particular
Chairman Mao's New Clothes and Chinese Shadows, the latter being
republished by Belles Lettres in early 2025. How complacent the
intellectuals of the 70s and 80s were towards the Chinese dictatorship!
The same is true of the political class. As Simon Leys writes, "the
arbiters of opinion are not indulgent towards anyone who publicly mocks
intellectual fashions, or breaks political and aesthetic taboos." Read it!
Several texts present astonishing characters, I will only give you the
names, William Seabrook, La citoyenne Sorgue, la belle Otero, Yvonne
George, Jean D'Halluin.
An article highlights the bitterness of the debates on eugenics and the
often terrible justifications.
You will probably like the struggles relating to fishing and the sardine
industry in the ports of Douarnenez and Concarneau.
Finally, Cédric Biagini offers us a very beautiful interview with
Jeanine Warnod, André Warnod's daughter. It is a journey through time,
that of the bohemianism of Montmartre and then the years of
Montparnasse. André Warnod was a major player in this intellectual life.
His daughter, as a child, rubbed shoulders with Pierre Mac Orlan,
Francis Carco, Suzanne Valadon, Chagall, Poulbot. It is an invitation to
reread these authors, see these paintings. Do not go to Montmartre.
Already in the 1920s, André Warnod considered that the Butte was invaded
by tourists... So today, it's kitsch as can be. Read instead the
anecdotes of Jeanine Warnod when she goes to Mac Orlan in Saint-Cyr sur
Morin in Seine et Marne, the life of La Ruche, a community of artists in
Montparnasse. I refer you to the book by Mathyeu Le Bal, Montparnasse:
quand Paris éclairait le monde published by Albin Michel. We had
received the author in our program Au fil des pages. You will relive
bohemia with André Warnod's book Plaisirs de Paris, reissued by
L'Echappée in 2023.
Finally, the article on the Peignot brothers, great masters of
typography, allows us to mention Laure's (Colette Peignot) book,
Histoire d'une petite fille, reissued by Editions de la Lanterne in 2024.
Fascinating readings.
* Brasero
Revue de contre-histoire, n°4
https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=8122
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