{"id":265,"date":"2020-04-09T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:23:47","slug":"a-lamericaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/a-lamericaine\/","title":{"rendered":"A l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricaine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>N\u00e9 en 1944, Michael ALLIN est un romancier et sc\u00e9nariste am\u00e9ricain. Il est connu pour avoir travaill\u00e9 sur \u00ab&nbsp;Op\u00e9ration dragon&nbsp;\u00bb (1973), \u00ab&nbsp;Flash Gordon&nbsp;\u00bb (1980) et \u00ab&nbsp;Sacr\u00e9 P\u00e8re No\u00ebl&nbsp;\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0I&rsquo;ll Be Home for Christmas\u00a0\u00bb, 1998). Apr\u00e8s une longue enqu\u00eate en France et en Afrique, il signe ce qui sera son premier livre&nbsp;:<em> Zarafa, a Giraffe\u2019s True Story from Deep in Africa to the Heat of Paris <\/em>(Walker &amp; Co, 1998). La version fran\u00e7aise est publi\u00e9e en France par Latt\u00e8s en 2000&nbsp;: <em>La girafe de Charles X<\/em> (trad. St\u00e9phane Carn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab&nbsp;Appelons-la Zarafa\u2026&nbsp;\u00bb, c\u2019est en effet \u00e0 Allin que revient le m\u00e9rite d\u2019avoir baptis\u00e9 notre girafe nationale. R\u00e9flexe disneyen, ma foi bien pratique. Mais pr\u00e9cisons que lors de son arriv\u00e9e en France, elle ne s\u2019appelait que \u00ab&nbsp;la girafe&nbsp;\u00bb. Pourquoi aurait-on donn\u00e9 un autre nom \u00e0 ce mod\u00e8le unique&nbsp;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le livre est bien document\u00e9 et agr\u00e9ablement r\u00e9dig\u00e9. On peut cependant reprocher \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9crivain am\u00e9ricain de ne jamais citer une seule fois dans son ouvrage le nom du premier sp\u00e9cialiste et red\u00e9couvreur de la Girafe au XXe si\u00e8cle&nbsp;: Gabriel Dardaud (cf. article \u00ab&nbsp;Rendons \u00e0 Gabriel\u2026&nbsp;\u00bb).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u00e9 en 1944, Michael ALLIN est un romancier et sc\u00e9nariste am\u00e9ricain. Il est connu pour avoir travaill\u00e9 sur \u00ab&nbsp;Op\u00e9ration dragon&nbsp;\u00bb (1973), \u00ab&nbsp;Flash Gordon&nbsp;\u00bb (1980) et \u00ab&nbsp;Sacr\u00e9 P\u00e8re No\u00ebl&nbsp;\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0I&rsquo;ll Be Home for Christmas\u00a0\u00bb, 1998). Apr\u00e8s une longue enqu\u00eate en France et en Afrique, il signe ce qui sera son premier livre&nbsp;: Zarafa, a Giraffe\u2019s True<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"btn-filled btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/a-lamericaine\/\" title=\"A l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricaine\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Allin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesamisdezarafa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}