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If our school is going through a deep crisis, it is primarily because its mission has ultimately been forgotten: only the work of transmission allows a child to receive the knowledge, the culture through which they can become free and fulfill their own life. This is what... (translated)

Édouard Philippe proposed to reduce the unemployment benefits duration to 12 months for workers under 50, to end the open-ended sick leave, and to maintain the Dutreil pact for the transmission of family businesses, while emphasizing the need to reform economic policy and pensions in France. (translated)

The debate on taxing mega-inheritances, supported by the left and unions like the CFDT, is emerging as the 2026 presidential election approaches, while the right is largely opposed to it, despite a forecast of significant increases in wealth transfers due to an aging population. (translated)

Le système de robots d'inspection intelligents du projet de centrale nucléaire de Cangnan (CGN) est entré officiellement en service en juillet ! Deux robots d'inspection intelligents, chacun doté d'une fonction spécifique et d'avantages complémentaires, peuvent effectuer de manière autonome les tâches d'inspection quotidiennes. Toutes les données d'inspection et les images prises sur site sont téléchargées et partagées en temps réel via l'intranet, éliminant ainsi les obstacles à la transmission des données. Des inspections manuelles traditionnelles à la surveillance par robots intelligents, CGN utilise les technologies énergétiques intelligentes pour donner des « poussées numériques » à une production sûre. 🦾⚡CGN #RobotInspectionIntelligent #ÉnergieIntelligente #SécuritéNucléaire #InnovationTechnologique #Numérisation #TechnologiesDePointe #ÉnergieIntelligente #InnovationTechnologique #SécuritéNucléaire

🇷🇺 PUTIN’S OCTOBER SURPRISE? — WATCH 1 OCTOBER 2026 Something is building inside Russia. From 1 October 2026, millions of Russians face another major increase in regulated household utility costs. Electricity transmission tariffs and other communal-service charges move sharply https://t.co/LxLyzhrIQb #Putin #Russia #UtilityPrices #RU

The novel "The Solitude of Teachers is Infinite" by Yannick Haenel explores both the daily challenges and the passion for teaching through the journey of a young French teacher, Jean Deichel, who, despite the obstacles encountered in a difficult school, remains convinced of the transformative power of literature and the transmission of knowledge. (translated)

Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.

Ce jour marque le 100ème anniversaire de l’immense René Goscinny. Il entretenait un lien fort avec Cannes, où une école porte aujourd’hui son nom et où il a habité, avenue Reine Astrid. René Goscinny, c’était évidemment le génie créatif à la française, qui a donné naissance à des œuvres cultissimes, diffusées dans le monde entier depuis des décennies : Astérix bien sûr, mais aussi Lucky Luke ou Le Petit Nicolas. Entre autres. Ses œuvres ont marqué toutes les générations et sont régulièrement adaptées sur nos écrans. Son humour, sa finesse et son intelligence parlent à tous les âges. Car une bande dessinée de Goscinny peut littéralement se lire de 7 à 107 ans : jamais avec la même grille de lecture, mais toujours avec le même plaisir. C’est précisément cela qui en a fait un artiste populaire. À une époque où ce qualificatif est parfois dénigré par certaines élites, il importe au contraire de lui redonner tout son sens. Car c’est aussi la vocation d’une œuvre d’art : être universelle, traverser les époques et les publics, entrer dans l’histoire jusqu’à devenir un patrimoine commun. À Cannes, nous sommes fiers évidemment que René Goscinny appartienne non seulement au patrimoine national, mais aussi au patrimoine local. Celui d’une ville à laquelle sont associés tant de grands noms de la culture française : Guillaume Apollinaire, Prosper Mérimée, Alexis de Tocqueville, Joséphine Baker, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Gérard Philipe, Jean Marais ou Charles Aznavour. De tout temps, Cannes a attiré les créateurs et inspiré les artistes. Certains y trouvaient un cadre propice à la création, d’autres une poésie. C’est cette identité que nous voulons transmettre : par l’éducation artistique et culturelle dans nos écoles, par des lieux où l’art peut s’exprimer, par les plus grands événements culturels au monde et par la célébration de ceux qui ont façonné l’histoire de notre ville. En 2026, cette démarche a été saluée : Cannes a été élue ville la plus créative de France. J’ai comme rêve et comme ambition collective que la France soit reconnu comme le pays le plus créatif du monde. Il faudra pour cela retrouver l’excellence de l’instruction à concilier avec la liberté de création donc de concrétisation artistique de l’imagination. Vive l’art, vive la culture. Vive la création, vive la transmission. Vive l’esprit français ! #RenéGoscinny #BandeDessinée #Cannes