Les Préférences Festival returns for a 3rd edition from 24 to 28 September 2025
The 3rd Les Préférences Festival will take place from 24 to 28 September 2025 at the Maison Julien-Gracq in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil.
This artistic and literary festival has taken over from the Journées Gracq, set up to commemorate the literary influence of the Florentine writer, who died in 2007.
The committee has chosen Antoine Mouton as artistic director.
Antoine Mouton was born in 1981. Since 2004, he has published eleven books, novels and poems with various publishers. His first, Au nord tes parents, has just been reissued by Contre-Allée. This poetic tale was brought to the stage by Christophe Carassou.
On the programme:
Tuesday 23/09
- 8.30pm: film "Un long dimanche de fiancailles" at Ciné Glonne
Saturday 27/09
- 11am > 12pm: reading of "La vie des bord(e)s" by Sandrine Roche at the Théâtre de l'Evre
- 11am > 12pm: meeting on a toue cabanée with Sophie Coiffier, at St-Florent-le-Vieil
- 12 noon > 1pm: reading of "Une écopoétique du récit" by Pauline Peyrade, at the Maison Julien Gracq
- 2.50 pm > 3.50 pm: round table with Sandrine Roche and Marie-José Mondzain on the book saxifrage, at the Maison Julien Gracq
- 4pm > 5pm: reading about the chestnut tree, at the Maison Julien Gracq, with Justine Arnal, Sophie Coiffier, Gabriel Gauthier, Antoine Mouton and Sandrine Roche
- 5.30 pm > 6.30 pm: round table with Justine Arnal and Pauline Peyrade on the book de l'abolition des sortilèges, at the Maison Julien Gracq
- 7pm: official inauguration and wine tasting at Vignes du Montglonne
- 8.30pm: performance of "Les Oiseaux" by Pierre Bergounioux, at the Julien Gracq auditorium
Sunday 28/09
- 10am > 11am: meeting on a toue cabanée with Laurence Nobécourt, at St-Florent-le-Vieil
- 10am > 11am: guided tour of the "Recife" exhibition with Cécile Genest, Maison Julien Gracq
- 11.15am > 12.15pm: round-table discussion with Gabriel Gauthier and Antoine Boute on the book des lignes d'erre, Maison Julien Gracq
- 2 pm > 3 pm: round-table discussion with Marion Aubert and Selim-a Atallah Chettaoui on the book des transformations, at the Maison Julien Gracq
- 2 pm > 3 pm: meeting on a toue cabanée with Francesca Pollock, at St-Florent-le-Vieil
- 3.15 pm > 4.15 pm: round table with Francesca Pollock and Laurence Nobécourt on the book of hospitality, at the Maison Julien Gracq
- 3.30 pm > 4.30 pm: meeting on a toue cabanée with Selim-a Atallah Chettaoui, in St-Florent-le-Vieil
- 5pm > 6pm: closing reading with Marion Aubert, Antoine Boute, Selim-a Atallah Chettaoui and Francesca Pollock
