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And Fayrouz, who received the French president last night (Monday), at his request, and with his personal desire, to have a cup of coffee “at his house in Antelias (north of Beirut), and considered it appropriate that the session outside over a snack, in the presence of a very small number of guests, including the French ambassador to Lebanon, Bernard Fuchsia, his private lawyer, Faouzi Mutran, and his daughter, Rima, who coordinated this meeting. Rima stipulated that no There should be journalists, and the presence of President Macron’s private photographer was agreed, who had the honor and responsibility to document this historic moment that the Lebanese and Arabs are seeing. Curiosity of the French.
Close to the woman, who was able to remain hidden, as usual, without snoopers getting to know anything about her, confirms that she follows the news, as usual, and is addicted to seeing the course of events with its details, and that He lived shocked and sad after the big bang in the port of Beirut, on August 4, like all Lebanese. Consequently, the conversation with Macron must have had a political and humanitarian aspect, and that the French president listened carefully to what the First Arab Star says, and what she believes and aspires, as a citizen of these sad countries and an artist who has done many dreams and molded your conscience.
Fayrouz (85 years old), despite everything that has happened, still maintains his sense of humor, his insidious sarcasm, his freshness of thought and his ability to play with words, and continues to create an atmosphere of fun. What seems strange is that Fairuz has always given in her few appearances in the media an impression of her personality completely contrary to the truth of her personality, since there is no silence from her character, nor to withdraw from her loved ones. But this is how Assi wanted her to be his image, and she preferred the option, she was shy by nature, so she left her the story and rested, even if they asked her. The star replaced the speech and embroidering the answers with the song with which he conquered the hearts of the world, and he was not wrong.
Today, Fayrouz continues to do the same. She got used to the shade, settled in it and then I became addicted to it. She knows, inevitably, that she is beaming wherever she is, and that she is memorable even when hidden. The evidence is that despite nine years of absence from the stage after her concert at Platia in Sahel Alma (north of Beirut), Macron searched for a mosque for the Lebanese who were alarmed by the group, and only Fairuz was found. This is not surprising, despite the surprise that many showed when hearing the news of the meeting.
Fairouz was met by the French early, even before she sang for the first time in Paris in 1975. She was often honored by French Presidents and her art was loved to the point of passion by ministers of culture and music addicts. of the world. And it was the first French minister to sing of Fayrouz, Jacques Lang, who began her life with a theater company, who arrived in Lebanon in the late 1950s, from Marseille by sea, to save the price of air tickets. The group participated in the Rachana Festival, which was organized by the plastic artist Michel Basbous, with a work by Aeschylus, in which Lang had a representative role. Jacques Lang, who would become one of France’s most famous ministers of culture, was twenty years old at the time. By coincidence, he would come to the Racana Festival to attend the plays, in Batroun North, Asi and Fayrouz. The young Frenchman is happy to meet them, and he found out about them, then he goes to Baalbek, to attend their concert, which, as Toucan says, feels like he’s in heaven. Lang describes Fayrouz as a golden voice and with a magic that blows us away thanks to the divine miracle that he embodies.
The story did not end here, in 1988, Jacques Lang had become Minister of Culture and one of the closest confidants of President Francois Mitterrand, who would award Fairouz the Order of French Literature, and Lang presented it to him in a solemn ceremony in the royal palace of Paris, expressing his overwhelming happiness and honoring him with this honor.
All this happened during her second concert in Paris at “Bercy”, at the height of the civil war, where ten thousand of her fans looked at her with tears, candles and applause, and was received by the famous Frederick Mitterrand, nephew of President Mitterrand , on his TV show Teddo Cote by Chees Farid. Receiving the queens, not believing that he is in their presence, that he is a lover of Arab cinema, an attentive follower of the arts, who knows the importance of Fairouz, who in turn will become Minister of Culture, and Fayrouz will remain in his mind until his famous documentary is filmed about her, which will become one of the most famous of what has been filmed about her. Appreciation for Fayrouz has stopped ever since, as the late President Jacques Chirac awarded him the Knight of the Legion of Honor, one of the highest honors, and that was in 1998. When the French ambassador, Pierre Lavon, handed him over, He said it was a tribute to his bravery, that he refused to subordinate his voice except to the unity of the Lebanese.
Fayrouz’s first appearance in France dates back to the television interview to which Mireille Matteo invited her in 1975 on a program she hosted. As for her first stop at a French theater, it was in 1979 at the Olympiad, four years after the outbreak of the Civil War, and she repeated the rosary.
Consequently, Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Fayrouz is an exciting new one in form and timing, but in its content it is a continuation of a series of honorary initiatives for the Arab star unopposed for half a century, since Umm Kulthum was absent in 1975. Since then, no one has competed with her for this position, nor did Freddie Mitterrand said, in his documentary.
