“Marys Conde lived with an indefatigable attachment to France,” saluted Emmanuel Macron during the national tribute.

“He lived in an uneasy love for Guadeloupe, in an uneasy attachment to France. He was from France in his own way”Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, April 15, during the national tribute to the Guadeloupe writer Mayor Conde, who died on the night of April 1.^Eh until April 2.

In the National Library of France, on the site of Richelieu, the head of state greeted the writer, who “She lived in the republic in her own way, without denying her past struggle, nor completely denying that her fate as a woman carried undiminished republican hope. A beautiful child of the Republic, a beautiful child of the migration of the defeated hearts of curse and task”.

“Literature to the Stomach”

of the author Segu or unsatisfied lifeShe, who has died aged 90, was one of the great voices in French-language literature, exploring the history of Africa and its diaspora, the legacy of slavery and black identities in her novels, theater and essays. “She, Mary Conde, who interrupted Bernard Pivot on the set of Apostrophes with the words ‘May I object?’ of infinite rebellion, infinite malice, infinite sweetness.”Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to him. “Maryse Conde did not write in French or Creole, she wrote in Maryse Conde”According to the President.

“Mayris Conde lived a bitter love for Guadeloupe. (…) Mary Conde lived without giving anything away, without cheating, without pleasure, continuing to write and eat, literature in her stomach, from the height of her evil authority, with her cruel humor, laughing at herself and dictating her sentences as she dictates recipes. »he added.

This national tribute brought together many members of the government, including the Prime Minister Gabriel Atal and the delegate of the Minister of Overseas Territories, Marie Gevenou, and personalities of culture, religions and overseas territories, such as the Permanent Secretary of the French Academy. Amin Maaluf and Guadalupe MP Christian Baptiste.

The president has also agreed to rename the Guadeloupe-Paul Caribe de Abime airport “Mériz-Condé Airport,” Élysée told Agence France-Presse and confirmed. Site information Abroad 360°.