The NoëLivre literary fair takes place in Puy-Notre-Dame on December 1st

Given the success in 2023 of the first literary fair organized in the town with the help of Éditions du Petit Pavé, the second edition was scheduled for 1^is December 2024. Library volunteers, with the support of the municipality, are doing everything they can to ensure that this show is once again a real success. This fair will be an exceptional opportunity to participate in a real literary event in a rural environment with nearly 30 authors from here and elsewhere who will dedicate their worksspecifies the mayor of the town, Isabelle Isabellon. More than 800 titles will be exhibited, bringing together various literary genres (poetry, novel, youth, detective, regionalism and human sciences). Particular emphasis will be placed on heritage.

Note that 2024 is the year of the 16^e edition, this event having taken place for many years in Brissac-Quincé.

Focus on the heritage of Saumur

The local heritage will be promoted, in particular thanks to the magnificent work, published in October 2024, entitled “Châteaux, Manoirs et Logis du Saumurois” produced by three adopted Angevins: the author-photographer Frédéric Pétry, the heritage architect Guillaume Ros ( himself architect of the commune) and the local historian Édouard Bodin. By combining their respective skills, all three have highlighted around fifty residences in Saumur. Also invited, author Fanny Tonnelier will present three works. I have always loved reading but one day I found family archives and the desire to tell the character’s life came over me. I create a novel around these characters always in a historical context. I build my story and I don’t neglect the details that bring the text to life. Readers will thus be able to discover: “Raoul Tonnelier: an artist’s life” (biography), “Provisional Country” and “Rue des artistes”.