In a little less than two months, on Saturday July 27, the La Fouillade Book Festival will take place. Among the guests of this literary event of the department we will be able to meet, for the first time, Jean-Pierre Alaux.
He is a radio and television journalist (notably a columnist on Radio Totem, just like Daniel Crozes who will himself be present) and writer, author with Noël Balen, of the famous wine-police series “Le Sang de la vigne “, which has twenty-five opuses adapted for Television (currently broadcast on C8) and in which Pierre Arditi plays the main role of an oenologist-investigator.
He wrote another detective series, of seven books (in the collection 10-18 Grandsdetectives), in which Séraphin Cantarel, a museum curator, investigates prestigious sites in France in the 1970s and 1980s.
Two of these titles, “Toulouse-Lautrec en rit encore” and “La Pomme d’or de Rocamadour”, which were out of print, have just been reissued by Éditions Tout Latitude. With this same publisher, in 2022, he published “Marquayrol, the gardens of Henri Martin”; these gardens which inspired the post-impressionist painter of Lotois origin are located in Labastide-du-Vert, in Quercy.
A beautiful meeting
Jean-Pierre Alaux chairs the association for their rehabilitation which received the support of Loto du Patrimoine and the Mission Stéphane Bern. He is also the author of other works, notably “One Last Night with Jimmy”, about James Dean, published in 2011 by Calmann-Levy.
And finally his very latest book Tales and Legends of Garonne has just been published by Tout Latitude, in the “Contes et Légendes” collection. A wonderful meeting in perspective with this author whose television adaptation of his works gives him well-deserved notoriety!
