Boris Cyrulnik et Bordeaux, de la rafle à l’hommage, des ténèbres à la lumière
“A huge honor” for Mayor Pierre Hurmic, “all the more proud” as this is the first time he has presented the distinction as mayor. “Bordeaux is the city of your two births, that of July 26, 1937 but also that of January 10, 1944, when you went through death. He insisted on the Bordeaux figures of his childhood, such as the nurse Andrée Lescoubès, who saved him from the raid committed in the Bordeaux synagogue, or the teacher Margot Farges, who hid her, and whose the children were present in the audience.
“We owe you a lot”, he launched, insisting on his work on childhood and the concept of resilience, “the art of navigating in torrents”, which he applies in his mandate as mayor. An “elementary ecological” concept, according to the mayor, who compared the future medalist with “another illustrious Bordelais, Montaigne”, justified that both lived on rue de la Rousselle.
Catastrophe and turn
Boris Cyrulnik listened to the tribute with polite phlegm and a small smile, before thanking the audience. “This medal has a very heavy meaning. There are two Bordeaux for me. First, the black one of childhood and war. He then cited the friends who made him discover “a new Bordeaux, bright and cheerful, a source of life”. He embroidered around the root of the word “catastrophe”, both “cut” and “turn”, referring to the need for a “new philosophy of existence”, more frugal and less hurried, before keeping our time an “anthropological shift”, synonymous with resilience: “When life resumes, but not as before. »