Raconter en apprenant,apprendre en racontant

Abstract

Among the most essential activities ofman,the narrative appears in pre-emi-nent place. Since the dawn oftime,men have not stopped telling, narrate,andreportevents. Rock paintings, epic authors, playwrights, troubadours, poets,novelists, griots, and, until very recently, grandmothers, have tirelessly told sto-ries. In parallel with this fun activity, the heritage of humanity has increasedconsiderably in density but also in innovative conquests in all areas. Because,more than any other activity, the story continuallyteaches those who cultivateit.Even though all modern disciplines were not yet born, the story taught his-tory, geography, morals, great genealogies, migrations, and the existence ofdistant peoples, fabulous worlds, otherness, all encyclopaedic knowledge, allinventions, and all fictions. Also and especially the language. Because the storyremains the indestructible language receptacle. Without the Homeric epics,without the unequal Greek playwrights, without Virgil, without the sublimepoets of Arabia, without the Pleiades, Villon, Shakespeare, what would have een the actual knowledge of humans? Would Greek, Latin, Arabic, French,English be languages of knowledge and culture? Without Rabelais, Chateaubri-and, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, would the FLE be conceivable today