French entertainer Agnès Jaoui: Friend of Jane
Keeping us up to date on the Francophone Janeite news, Alert Janeite Paola sends us a link to an article about the French actress, director and singer Agnès Jaoui in which Ms. Jaoui claims Jane Austen among her favorite things. From the article:
Quinze ans que je parle d’/Orgueil et préjugés/ ! Et je l’aime toujours, et il se lit très vite. Je l’aime pour son anticonformisme foncier et son féminisme. Attention, pas féministe « contre les hommes », mais contre la condition dans laquelle vivaient les femmes il n’y a pas si longtemps, et parfois encore aujourd’hui.”
Paola kindly provided a translation to English:
“Fifteen years that I talk about Pride and Prejudice! And I still love it, and you read it very fast. I love her for her innate anti-conformism and her feminism. Beware, not feminist “against men”, but against the condition in which women used to live not so longtime ago, and sometime still today.”
Jane Austen is global!
