On Friday October 20, 2006, Bernard Pivot was in Haute-Loire. The man of letters, who died this Monday, May 6 at the age of 89, came to Haute-Loire to inaugurate the new La Grenette media library in Yssingeaux.
“It’s an almost evangelical miracle, the grain 200 years later has germinated here in the form of books, films, computers and CDs,” declared Bernard Pivot that day in October 2006, with the verve he is credited with knows.
The journalist was invited by the mayor of Yssingeaux at the time, Bernard Gallot, who inaugurated “a 700 m² media library, a cyberbase and two cinemas” under the name La Grenette.
For the occasion, the councilor brought together many public figures such as Jacques Santini, the former coach of the French football team, and the current regional president, at the time a deputy, Laurent Wauquiez.
Archive photo Lionel Ciochetto.
“We have moved from the culture that we draw from the soil to that which we draw from the spirit, from earthly foods to intellectual foods. Formerly the Yssingelais had their foreheads bent on the earth, they will have their heads bent on books “, Bernard Pivot also declared, spinning the metaphor on this old grain market built in 1828.
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