Each year, this event welcomes nearly 30,000 enthusiasts who come to meet around a hundred authors: historians, biographers, specialist journalists. On the program for these three exceptional days under the theme of “Adventurer Memories”: debates, meetings, concerts, screenings, an exhibition and of course signing sessions during which authors and readers interact.
The debates of the Authors’ Forum in the Atrium of Carré d’Art (level -1)
These debates are presented and moderated by: Patrice Zehr, editor-in-chief of the Monegasque monthly La Principalauté and responsible for the “international political” pages of the weekly Le Reporter, Guillaume Mollaret, journalist for Le Figaro and Challenges, Emilie Bec, journalist at Midi Libre and Antoine Boussin, former bookseller and former publisher.
Sunday January 26
> 10:30 a.m.: “Pius XII” with Frédéric Le Moal
> 11 a.m.: “Olympic Memories” with Nelson Montfort
> 11:30 a.m.: “Sacred monsters: Pagny, Delon, Arditi” with Valérie Alamo, Philippe Durant and Nathalie Simon
> 2 p.m.: “Charles Bedaux the Magnificent” with Thierry Lentz
> 2:20 p.m.: “Les Lis d’or” with Karin Hann
> 2:40 p.m.: “Staël exercises” with Stéphane Manel
> 3 p.m.: “Pétain” with Jean-Yves Le Naour
> 3:20 p.m.: “Angélique Arnauld. Dissident and Jansenist” with Agnès Walch
> 3:40 p.m.: “Jean Jaurés” with Jean-Numa Ducange
> 4 p.m.: “These nobles who made the Revolution” with Daniel de Montplaisir
> 4:20 p.m.: “Serve the Emperor or betray France” with Florence by Baudus
> 4:40 p.m.: “Victor Hugo. The romantic revolution of freedom” with Philippe Raynaud
Meetings at the Grand Auditorium of Carré d’Art (level -1)
Sunday January 26
> 10:30 a.m.: “The dark side of the queen”
Meeting with Marie Nimier, around her book (Mercure de France), hosted by Paule Constant, from the Goncourt academy.
> 11:30 a.m.: “We needed myths”
Meeting with Emmanuel de Waresquiel, around his book (Tallandier), hosted by Antoine Boussin.
> 14h : “1945”
Meeting with Jean-Christophe Buisson, around his book (Perrin), hosted by Guillaume Mollaret.
> 15h : “Lincoln”
Meeting with Farid Ameur, around his book (Fayard), hosted by Guillaume Mollaret.
> 4 p.m.: “The history and myth of the Gladiators”
Conference by Éric Teyssier, around his book (Glénat).
Meetings at the Small Auditorium of Carré d’Art (level -1)
Sunday January 26
> 10:30 a.m.: “Émile de Girardin” with Adeline Wrona
> 11 a.m.: “Charles de Gaulle” with Arnaud Teyssier
> 11:30 a.m.: “Savonarola” with Jean-Louis Fournel
> 12 p.m.: “Of woman and steel” with Cécile Chabaud
> 3:45 p.m.: “Children of the sea” with Virginia Tangvald
The many activities
Concert at Carré d’Art
“Tangos y otras cosas” by Ludovic Michel (guitar) at 5:30 p.m. at the Atrium
Between words and musical interpretations, come and take a journey from Spain to South America, from romanticism to tango around the great masters of the classical guitar (from Fernando Sor to Heitor Villa-Lobos) and the great Argentine composers (from Carlos Gardel to Astor Piazzolla). Ludovic Michel has been a tango enthusiast for over 20 years. Unanimously First Prize for guitar at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique de Paris in the class of Alexandre Lagoya, and director of the Tanguisimo show, he has played with the greatest masters of Argentine tango.
Conference-Meeting at the Alphonse Daudet high school
> 2:30 p.m.: “Notre-Dame de Paris. O queen of sorrow, o queen of victory”
Meeting with Sylvain Tesson about his book (Equateurs), followed by a signing session hosted by Patrice Zehr.
Exposition
“Journey to the land of the Cévennes” Jean du Boisberranger
For thirty years since he settled in the Cévennes, photographer Jean du Boisberranger has constantly traveled these mountains in search of their very particular atmospheres. Through photos, taken from his book Voyage au pays des Cévennes (Alcide), he tells us: the heat of the South in summer, the harshness of winter, the green of spring, the explosion of colors in the autumn, the stone, the water, the trees, the flowers but also the men and women who shape these mountains. A magnificent recognition.
From January 24 to 26
Gallery du hall
An off festival
For the 3rd consecutive year, neighborhood residents, associations and structures in the City of Nîmes are associated with the Biography Festival, an essential literary event in cultural life. For this edition, a few days before the event but also throughout the festival weekend, the actors of the Bio Off are waiting for you from January 21 to 26 to show you their joint exhibition in the heart of Nîmes at within the Courbet gallery.
Galerie Courbet – 13 Bd Amiral Courbet
Saturday, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
