“A few years ago, I began to put together a list of personalities born in Besançon, who lived there or who had a special relationship with our city. This is how the idea for this new book was born,” explains Mikaël Demenge, president of the “Besançon, j’aime ma ville” association and initiator of the project. The only rule: celebrities must be dead! We can't stop progress! Thanks to the analysis of occurrences on search engines, and by making the link with Besançon, a list of three hundred and thirty personalities was able to be created. The names are also presented and organized alphabetically, then chronologically, at the end of the book.
Pierre-Emmanuel Guilleray (curator of the library and municipal archives), Alain Mendel (editor) and Mikaël Demenge then drew up a list of twenty names. The Bisontins could thus choose their ten favorite characters (plus one name not on the list). The first part of the book is therefore devoted to the results of this ranking, with beautiful biographies of a few pages per celebrity. All eras are concerned.
Honor to women!
Of the twenty-one personalities, only three are women. For a little more parity, Aline Chassagne, doctor in sociology and assistant in charge of culture, has written notes on thirty-five women who made the history of the city. Organized in chronological order, the notes allow us to take a brief look at women with remarkable destinies who are yet too little known: Madeleine Lasibille (1879-1968), Yvonne Jourjon (1899-1985), Janine Andrade (1918-1997)… Alphabetical classification of the fifty characters who left their mark on Besançon, with more succinct biographies, is then proposed.
A real accelerated training on the history of Besançon. By reading them, we then better situate these familiar names, which we sometimes hear, without really knowing who they were.
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