” There’s a real appetite for history here, witness Claude Chassaing, director ofFrench Institute from Bulgaria. It is a country that has known tragic periods, a very complex history in the 19th and 20th centuries. ”
In this ex-communist country with a turbulent past, every year, Inheritance Days achieved resounding success. In Sofia, the capital alone, some forty monuments, institutions or places of worship are exceptionally open to the public this weekend.
To French residence, we remember that morning in January 1989, when François Mitterrand, then at the Élysée Palace, offered a breakfast in honor of the dissidents of the communist regime at the time. It was the first visit by a French head of state to Bulgaria.
“They are Francophiles, but unfortunately they are not Francophones! We are working on it: they can learn French at the Institut français, but also, and this is a local specificity, in 15 bilingual schools across the country where education is provided in Bulgarian and French. “
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