During 17 years, This sculpture was exibited on the other side of the harbourg. But, each year, during the festival "Francofolie", the sculpture was moved. So it was important to find it an other place, not too far from the festival...

I symbolized the French-speaking countries by small villages. I carved houses, trees, cars, -and towers of La Rochelle!- a whole life. This dimensions "village" please to the tourists, but what is surprising, with the first access, it is the proportion ocean/continent. The oceans are hollow. It is voluntary.

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When I started to work on this project, I knew already that this sphere would be located in this prestigious place. Especially, that it is not unaesthetic? I chose the cavity of the oceans which plastically was as well more interesting.

This sculpture is also a homage of the world of the music to Michel Crépeau, mayor and deputy recently dead, who defended the French language from a long time. A sentence from one of its speeches was reproduced on this sculpture:

"A through the French** song, it is our culture, our poetry and our language which make the turn of the world."

*To locate all the French-speaking countries of the world, not to forget one of them, I referred to the documents of the conference of Francophonie de Hanoi of 1996. Here the list of these countries and entities French-speaking registered voters in 1996: Belgium, Benign, Bulgaria, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Kampuchea, Cameroun, Canada, Cape Verde, Central Africa, the Comoros, Congo, Côte.d'ivoire, Djibouti, Domenica, Egypt, France, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-equatorial, Haiti, Laos, Lebanon, Louisiana (the United States), Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Maurice, Mauritania, Moldavie, Monaco, Niger, Romania, Rwanda, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Thomas-and-Prince, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Valley-In Aoste (Italy), Vanuatu, Viêt-nam, Zaire.