Corrida: Personalities oppose the ban on minors

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While a controversy erupted this summer because of the presence of the Minister of Agriculture Didier Guillaume and his counterpart to the City Jacqueline Gouraud in the forefront of a bullfighting event, several elected officials of the majority intend to legislate against bullfighting.

An idea that strongly dislikes some artists, therefore, who see it as a negation of "the soul of the thousand-year-old bullfighting culture". Among the signatories of the tribune are Pierre Arditi, Charles Berling, Patrick Carolis, Denis Podalydes or Jean Reno.

"France can not embody this retrograde and sad puritanism"

"The child, like the teenager, is endowed with intelligence, capable of emotion, sensitive to heroism, available to beauty, culture and art. Wanting to spare him the complexity of reality, violence and the sacred, is despising his future, "they write. For them, this "meeting of courage and honor" is indeed an art and therefore deserves to remain accessible to all. "That's why Cocteau, Picasso, Hemingway or Francis Bacon before us have found so much."

"Prohibiting an art is unworthy of a modern democracy", insist the signatories of the text, who deplore that the prohibition of bullfighting is the sign that "men of power decide in their place of what is good for the others" .

And go as far as to compare this potential prohibition with a form of artistic censorship of the most despicable. "Those who consider it can only do so in the name of an undue and paternalistic moralization of public life; the one that once condemned Flaubert for the lightness of Madame Bovary; the one that put Oscar Wilde in prison for homosexuality in Britain; the one that was thought to have disappeared, but which, ominously, banishes the nude on social networks. "They add:" France can not embody this retrograde and sad puritanism. "

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