The Amis de George Sand host a dialogue on history at the Domaine de George Sand in Nohant-Vic. Carole Rivière and José-Luis Diaz consider its place in the writer’s thought and work. Brigitte Diaz chairs a discussion linking history, memory and creation. The meeting introduces a new issue of the Cahiers George Sand devoted to George Sand et la fabrique de l’Histoire.
Tag: talks-conferences
George Sand et les sciences naturelles
A hundred and fifty years after her death, George Sand is read for far more than her references to the Berry. This Bourges talk turns to the other Sand: the correspondent who came back again and again to flowers, butterflies and fossils. Her letters are set beside her published writings, and together they show a genuinely naturalist way of looking. Among the great authors of her time she is seldom presented in that light.
Symposium on the Siegfried collections at Langeais
The Institut de France, to which Jacques Siegfried gave the château of Langeais, devotes two days to the collection he and Thérèse assembled there after buying the place in 1886. Historians, curators and conservators bring the newest research on that ensemble. The register Siegfried drew up with his daughter Agnès still guides them. The château also shows « Fragments d’ailleurs », photographs he brought back from his travels.
Restaurer le patrimoine: Meet the Makers in Loches
The people who care for heritage take centre stage in Restaurer le patrimoine in Loches. Artists, restorers and artisans introduce their professions and discuss the knowledge and practical skills involved in their work. A freely explored meeting format gives the public space to speak with these specialists, turning attention from finished historic fabric to the expertise needed to sustain it.
Clovis at Chartres? History and a Baptism Legend
Could Clovis’s conversion have followed a visit to Chartres? The Life of Bishop Solemnis tells that story, but the account was written long after the events it describes. This archaeological lecture examines how successive retellings shaped memory of the Frankish king, treating the proposed connection to Chartres as a historical question and a legend to investigate.
Sancerre: The Church Fathers and Protestant Thought
Are the Church Fathers also the fathers of Protestant thought? Jean-Paul LESIMPLE takes up that question in a heritage talk in Sancerre, tracing the long historical and theological passage between early Christianity and Luther. The lecture challenges the habit of skipping those intervening centuries, opening a discussion within the town’s Protestant religious heritage.
Le Grand Couvert: Food and Crafts of Berry
Berry’s art of living takes a practical turn at Le Grand Couvert, where gastronomy meets arts and crafts. Hospitality professionals and students work together on a programme of workshops, talks and a feast. A concert adds music to the gathering, which connects the region’s food culture with the skills of those who cook, make and welcome guests.
Hospices de Beaune: Building a New Hospital
Aurélie Waller, Head of Works at the Hospices Civils de Beaune, examines how hospital architecture responds to changing care. The visit and discussion connect the construction of a new hospital with the project of Nicolas Rolin and Guigone de Salins. From the Hôtel-Dieu’s “palace for the poor” to the Centre hospitalier Philippe le Bon, buildings reveal different ambitions for treating patients.
Hospices de Beaune: Preserving Hospital Heritage
Hospital heritage in Beaune unfolds through guided walks, talks and encounters with costumed hospital sisters carrying medical instruments and apothecary jars. Sister Louise Duchini recounts changes in nursing and relationships with patients. Conservation specialists explain the protection of the collections and the creation of a facsimile of the Last Judgement polyptych using digital techniques.
Yvon Le Men and Jean-Michel Le Boulanger: Culture
Yvon Le Men and Jean-Michel Le Boulanger hold a dialogue in the spirit of kan ha diskan, an exchange punctuated by poems. Destroyed works, censorship and slashed budgets frame the talk, which calls for a state of emergency covering artistic creation and cultural policy. Freedom of creation, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience stand as the utopia at issue, one that totalitarian regimes never tolerate and that democracies are asked to cherish. Teenagers as well as adults are the audience named at Guingamp’s Place du Champ-au-Roy.