The presentation of the 24th Combourg-Chateaubriand prize to travel writer Sylvain Tesson, author of the book “Dans les fées…” published by Éditions Équateurs, was a great success this Saturday, October 12. At the Château de Combourg, the public was able to attend a conference-debate in which the 2023 winner, Emmanuel Godo, professor of literature at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris and author of a remarkable biography of Maurice Barrès, also participated.
A large audience
The presentation of the 2024 prize to Sylvain Tesson then took place in the presence of a large audience among which we could note the presence of Édouard Coudurier, president of the Télégramme Group and General Chargy, director of the Coëtquidan military school. The mayor of Combourg, Joël Le Besco, thanked the organizers of the prize, Sonia and Guy de la Tour du Pin as well as Hervé Louboutin who “salute every year the memory of the man without whom Combourg would not be what it is today ‘today! “.
Philippe de Saint Robert, president of the Chateaubriand Academy, insisted on the journey of Sylvain Tesson which is “necessarily haunted by history and geography and which leads us from Homer to Chateaubriand via Montaigne, to ‘to Barrès and you! “.
Sylvain Tesson very moved
Sylvain Tesson, very moved by this first visit to Combourg, expressed his “joy and pride at receiving the prize at the very place where the young knight, encouraged by his sister Lucile, would also become a great traveler and a great writer”. And to continue: “From Sylphids to fairies, there was only one step that I have just happily taken while walking in the woods of Combourg and on the towers of its castle which, for the young Malouin, was not yet romantic , then had the appearance of a strange and rough fortress! “.
