Moissac. “Matilde sans H”: meeting the author at l’Ancrier

She is an astonishing artist with protean talent that the public will be able to meet, this Saturday, November 23, at the floating bookstore l'Ancrier, permanently moored in the port of Moissac. Matilde Neri de Montsegur was born in Switzerland to an Italian family, she passed through Belgium then settled in France. Both a painter and a gallery owner, his talent has crossed borders to Italy, England and even Saudi Arabia. She also immersed herself in the demanding art of illumination, which she practices today in Brittany. But she also has a pen, which the public can discover in her first novel, “Matilde sans H”, published by Earhart and Brown. This fiction has its roots in the Italian 19th century in the magnificent city of Bologna, at the foot of the Alpine massif. The beauty of this city and its environment has difficulty masking the poverty which largely affects the local population. Two women in precarious circumstances will try to escape their disastrous destiny through exodus, which will take them to the City of Lights, in the middle of the Impressionist era. Paris at the start of the war was flamboyant but also tumultuous and not devoid of dangers. The book finds echoes in these migrations towards the supposed light beyond the horizon, at the heart of a great history, in this case that of the 20th century here emerging, often implacable.

The work and the author to be discovered this Saturday from 2:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m., in this beautiful setting that constitutes the Ancrier barge and its quay, on the canal basin.