US EditionFrance cancels modern 'Beauty and the Beast' for schoolkids
- France's education ministry canceled a modern version of 'Beauty and the Beast' for schoolchildren due to concerns about its content.
- Illustrator Julien Berjeaut, known as Jul, criticized the cancellation as a form of 'political decision' and 'censorship,' comparing it to actions taken by the Trump administration against certain educational topics.
- Education Minister Elisabeth Borne stated that the themes in Jul's illustrations were more suitable for older students, suggesting they were inappropriate for a family holiday reading.
- Jul questioned whether his illustrations reflected discomfort with the portrayal of non-traditional characters and a possible connection to far-right rhetoric on immigration.
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France Cancels Order For Modern 'Beauty And The Beast' For Schoolchildren
France's education ministry has cancelled an order for "Beauty and the Beast" with modern illustrations, saying a cartoonist's 21st-century version including a police sniffer dog and smartphones was inappropriate for tweens. Julien Berjeaut, whose pen name is Jul, had been asked to illustrate an 18th-century version of the famous fairy tale for a government scheme to give 800,000 primary school graduates a revamped classic to read for the summer…
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France cancels modern 'Beauty and the Beast' for schoolkids
France's education ministry has cancelled an order for "Beauty and the Beast" with modern illustrations, saying a cartoonist's 21st-century version including a police sniffer dog and smartphones was inappropriate for tweens.
"Censorship is obvious and it is pharaonic": Jul denounces the cancellation by the National Education of an order of his "Belle et la Bête"
A modernized but considered too adult version of the tale hit the ministry, which cancelled an order of 800,000 illustrated books for the CM2s, denounced the author on Wednesday.
The version of "La Belle et la Bête", commissioned and subsequently cancelled by national education, is "not adapted" to ten-year-old students, judge Elisabeth Borne
A modernized but considered too adult version of the traditional tale hit national education, which cancelled an order of 800,000 illustrated books for the CM2. Its author, Jul, denounced a "political decision" of "censorship".
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