The Director-General thanked him for sharing the passion and intellectual depth of his views.

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He'd rather spend his efforts sharing his passion with the general public.

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Culture is a French passion and a way to fight against the centrifugal force of the crisis, because without sharing, without exchange, without dialogue, there is no culture, any more than there can be commerce.

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The passion being put into these events is astonishing and proves a global interest in this new way of sharing knowledge and reawakening wonder.

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