The Cercle des Lettres celebrates books at the Interallié
It has become a tradition on the eve of the holidays, for seven years the Circle of Letters has received writers coming to present and sign their works. At the very beginning, there were 33 authors… at 33, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, at the Interallié. With success, there are now around forty of them, and this event, orchestrated with passion by Monique Raimond, also hosts a bookstore.
The president of the Circle of Letters can rejoice “to see this evening at the Interallié so many talented women and men, novelists, diplomats, academicians, journalists, political figures, lifelong friends.”
Without having consulted each other, Amin Maalouf, permanent secretary of the French Academy, and Monique Raimond cited, in their opening speech this evening, the same very beautiful text receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature from Albert Camus in 1957, mentioning the values of truth and freedom. Two causes that writing and reading help to defend today.