Soligny-la-Trappe. Nearly 500 visitors to the 16th Perche book fair

She was the guest of honor. Cécile Oumhani was unable to go to the Perche book fair, due to the trains stopping due to the storm. However, nearly 50 authors and 490 visitors came on Saturday and Sunday, and nearly 490 Books were sold. This book fair, organized by the Solignoise cultural association, was well received overall, with the presence of twenty-two new authors but also an exhibition dedicated to the Tourouvre Massacre and the presence of art artisans, without forget several conferences led by local authors or historians.

Since its creation in December 2008, this book fair has brought in more than 700 authors and 46 artists for 8,031 books sold. This show is a meeting place for literature enthusiasts. A true crossroads of exchanges and discoveries, the unmissable event in the cultural life of Perche underlined Mayor Thierry Cortyl.

Olivier Bitz recalled to his Corsican mission

Among the authors present, Frédéric Ploquin, this was his third appearance at the event. Originally from Paris, he was an investigative journalist for forty years. He has been writing for thirty-one years and has published around thirty works. He mainly specialized in the fields of police, banditry and intelligence. He is also the author of the books Fear has changed sidesof Hate in the eyes and most recently Confessions of a Corsican patriot. A rare testimony, that of a pillar of the FLNC, the Corsican National Liberation Front, who is considered one of the leaders of the military branch of this organization which entered history on May 5, 1976. Experienced in the handling of weapons since At the age of 13, Jo went into hiding without imagining that this fight would haunt him for forty years.

With these confessions collected by Frédéric Ploquin, Jo Péraldi leaves a trace of these naturally secret events which built the legend of the FLNC. A necessary and precious testimony, that of a profoundly patriotic man passionately in love with freedom. A book which caught the attention of Senator Olivier Bitz, present on Saturday at the inauguration since he was appointed information officer on the institutional future of Corsica in the Senate.