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Heydar Aliyev
“Azerbaijani Culture: Focus of Attention”
The events held, with organizational support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and assistance by Azerbaijan’s Embassy in France, in the French cities of Reims and Melouse, devoted to the 900th jubilee of great Azerbaijani poetess Mahsati Ganjavi, and Azerbaijan’s participation in an international fair in Paris have been widely covered in local media.
French newspaper “L’union” talks about the international fair held in the city of Reims. The article states about the vivacity at the Hotel de Ville square, and international holiday mood at the fair. The author writes that, in a fair joined by the Great Britain, India, Poland and other countries, Azerbaijani city Ganja was represented along with Florence(Italy), fraternized with Reims, Arlington (USA), and Meknes (Morocco). Azerbaijani wines demonstrated by Ganja city at the fair were highly valued.
In another article placed in the newspaper, it is underlined that, after the exhibition held last year in the city of Reims, relations between the parties have been broadened, and that Azerbaijan was represented in a Christmas Holiday organized at the Town Hall square.
The newspaper talks about the interesting exhibition devoted to eminent Azerbaijani poetess Mahsati Ganjavi in the Tau Palace. In the article, Mahsati Ganjavi is praised as a legend of her era, and an author of progressive thoughts: “This interesting exhibition and the concert of national music were the discovery of the Caucasus in France.”
And in the newspaper “L’alsace mulhouse”, the events held within the project ”A Bridge Connecting the 12th and 21st Centuries: Creativity of Azerbaijani Poetess and Philosopher Mahsati Ganjavi” are described in detail. In an article entitled “Azerbaijani Culture: Focus of Attention”, representative of the Oriental Renaissance Mahsati Ganjavi is praised as being among poets that have earned themselves an eternal life. “This is because Mahsati’s humanistic ideas, her thoughts of freedom and pure love made her distinguished among all the Oriental and Western poets.”
http://www.lunion.presse.fr/region/un-marche-international-place-de-la-mairie-ia3b24n258490