Laetitia Isambert | De mémoire, Renée Claude

Singing solo, surrounded by four musicians, Laetitia Isambert immerses us in the creative and abundant universe of Renée Claude through archives and unpublished texts. The actress and singer thereby brings to light an inventiveness hampered by an era that kept women away from the creative process.

Renée Claude was a powerful storyteller, whose songs spoke of intimacy, politics, and community. However, at the end of her life, Alzheimer's disease robbed her of her memories, clouding her mind: a personal tragedy, but also a symbolic one, reflective of a society that sometimes forgets the voices of its pioneering women.

Although her career took off in the heart of the 1970s - a decade filled with possibilities - Renée's freedom was limited to her role as a performer. She sang about women's emancipation, yet the lyrics about this liberation were written by men.