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Agenda

Concerts

Soldiers' confidences and complaints

All these emotions – from passionate allegiance to tormenting doubt, from heroic fervour to the depths of dejection and sometimes death itself, from the cheerful solidarity of the regiment to solitude and even melancholy – are put into words that reveal the very soul of the soldier.

To mark the exhibition The Life of a Soldier. From Ancient Rome to the Present Day, a cycle of eight concerts will conjure up the daily life of a soldier. While composers have gathered soldiers’ confidences, understood their emotions and even interpreted their silences, transforming them into music, poets and writers have also served as their interpreters, succeeding in putting into words the different sensations felt by women and men wearing military uniform, from the most famous to the most humble, from time immemorial.


Friday 13 October 2017, 8pm – Salle Turenne
Saint-Simon en campagne (Saint-Simon in the filed)
Denis Podalydès from the Comédie-Française, Olivier Baumont, harpsichordist
Couperin – Marais – Dandrieu

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Friday 24 November 2017, 8pm – Salle Turenne
Capitaine Tobias Hume (Captain Tobias Hume)
Richard Myron
Schmelzer – Hume – Biber

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Thursday 30 November 2017, 8pm – Cathédrale Saint-Louis
L’histoire du soldat (The history of the soldier)
Didier Sandre from the Comédie-Française, Des Équilibres Ensemble
Stravinski – Holst – Delerue…

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Friday 1 December 2017, 8pm – Grand Salon
Ami, entends-tu ?
French army choir
Méhul – Gounod – Donizetti…

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Sunday 10 December 2017, 5pm – Cathédrale Saint-Louis
Ah, que j’aime les militaires !
Isabelle Druet, François Salque
Bizet – Offenbach – Donizetti

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Monday 11 December 2017, 8pm – Grand Salon
Complaintes de soldats (Soldiers' complaints
Janina Baechle, Edwin Fardini, Anne Le Bozec
Schubert – Mahler – Schumann – Poulenc…

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Friday 26 January 2018, 8pm – Grand Salon
Simplicissimus
Jean-Denis Monory, Les Cyclopes ensemble
Valentini – Bertali – Biber – Froberger…

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Sunday 28 January 2018, 4pm – Salle Turenne
L’Homme armé (The armed man)
Ensemble Clément Janequin & Les Sacqueboutiers ensemble
La Rue – Desprez – Obrecht – Busnois – Dufay…

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Cinema

Far from home

Offering a programme of six fiction films and a documentary, this cycle will show how the everyday life of soldiers has been depicted on the big screen, with all the training, waiting, boredom, frustration, tension and fear it entails.


Monday 20 November 2017, 7.30pm
The Eagle
by Kevin Macdonald (2011)
UK/USA – original version with French subtitles – 114 minutes

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Tuesday 21 November 2017, 7.30pm
du Guesclin
by Bernard de Latour (1949)
France – original version – 100 minutes

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Wednesday 22 November 2017, 8pm
Il deserto dei tartari (The Desert of the Tartars)
by Valério Zurlini (1976)
Italy/France/Germany – original version with French subtitles – 138 minutes

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Thursday 23 November 2017, 4.30pm
Kelly’s Heroes
by Brian G. Hutton (1970)
USA/Yugoslavia – original version with French subtitles – 144 minutes

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Thursday 23 November 2017, 8pm
Heartbreak Ridge
by Clint Eastwood (1986)
États-Unis – original version with French subtitles – 125 minutes

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Friday 24 November, 4.30pm
Jarhead
by Sam Mendes (2005)
USA/Germany – original version with French subtitles – 123 minutes

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Friday 24 November, 8pm
Armadillo
by Janus Metz (2010)
Denmark – original version with French subtitles – 100 minutes

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Conferences

Forward march!

To accompany the exhibition The Life of a Soldier. From Ancient Rome to the Present Day , the Musée de l’Armée is organising several conferences exploring the everyday life of a European army soldier from Antiquity to the present day, in partnership with the Université Permanente de Paris. The conferences will be held between 18 October and 21 November 2017.

Free entry with reservation, subject to availability: histoire[at]musee-armee.fr


Wednesday 18 Octobre 2017, 1.45-3pm
The Place of Religion in a Campaigning Army in Modern Times
By Xavier Boniface, Université de Picardie


Wednesday 8 November, 1.45-3pm
Archaeological Traces Left by Modern Campaigning Armies
By Séverine Hurard, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (Inrap)


Tuesday 14 November, 1.45-3pm
The Life of a Medieval Soldier
By Olivier Renaudeau, curator and head of the Antiquity department at the Musée de l’Armée, exhibition curator


Friday 17 November, 1.45-3pm
Understanding Army Logitics
By Lieutenant-Colonel Christophe Gué, Cours Supérieur Interarmes (CSIA)


Conference on Montecuccoli

Marking the publication in France of Montecuccoli’s memoirs.

Free entry with reservation, subject to availability: histoire[at]musee-armee.fr


Tuesday 21 November 2017, 1.45-4.30pm
Introduction by Georges-Henri Soutou, from the Institut de France

Presentation of Montecuccoli’s Memoirs, by Professor Ferenc Tóth, scientific adviser to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Martin Motte, research director at the École Pratique des Hautes Études

Soldiers’ Living Conditions during the Turkish War in Hungary during the Modern Era, by Ferenc Tóth