La Lente et Difficile Agonie du Crapaud Buffle sur le Socle Patriarcal

An adaptation of a radio broadcast first aired on 4 December 2021.

Highlight of the 2025 Avignon Festival Off, La lente et difficile agonie du crapaud buffle sur le socle patriarcal is performed by a bold trio, Julien Flament, Anne-Sophie Pauchet and Juliette Lamour, who recreate with sharp insight and humour a landmark moment of radio, where political feminism clashes with patriarchal discourse.

A feminist, joyful and cathartic show!

On 4 December 2021, Alain Finkielkraut hosts on his radio programme the philosopher Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, author of Un corps à soi, and the essayist Jean-Michel Delacomptée, author of Les hommes et les femmes, notes sur l'esprit du temps.

The programme's topic: Men and women today – On the evolution of relations between the sexes and their revolution.

Soon, what should have been a traditional adversarial exchange reveals itself to be more complex, becoming a brilliant demonstration of contemporary feminism confronting patriarchal discourse. Two visions collide, two worlds clash.

Has the patriarchal order of our society truly changed, as its opponents claim? Or must we, as the philosopher argues, keep up the fight to bring down the unequal foundations on which it rests?

Gradually the debate intensifies, the masks fall, and the listeners follow the discussion spellbound, as one might watch the slow and difficult agony of the buffalo toad on the patriarchal pedestal crumbling beneath it… Reservations for people with reduced mobility: 01 46 06 49 24