
Café littéraire
2pm Centre Social Saint Exupéry.
Jean-Marie Pelt (1933-2015) was a French biologist, pharmacist, botanist, ecologist, politician, writer and radio broadcaster. He was an associate professor and then honorary professor of plant biology and pharmacognosy at the University of Metz, and was the founder of the European Institute of Ecology.
It was in Rodemack, a small medieval village in Moselle where he spent his childhood, that his love of plants was born.
Theme: How about a café in the garden*?
"We must cultivate our garden", concluded Voltaire's optimistic Candide.
Whether it's a kitchen garden or a pleasure garden, a city garden or a working man's garden, a lost garden, a secret garden or a wilderness to be preserved, every garden is unique.
every author has his or her own garden...
Elizabeth Goudge: The garden of Belmaray / pierre Boulle: The garden of Kanashima
/ Cathie Barreau: Trois jardins / Jean-Paul Goux: Les jardins de Morgante / Andrée Chedid: Le Jardin perdu / Janet Frame: Le jardin aveugle / Hermann Hesse: Brèves nouvelles de mon jardin / Thomas Sandoz: Même en terre / Michel Tournier: Jardin de curé / Octave Mirbeau: Le Jardin des supplices / Huysmans: À rebours / etc.
Friday 27 June at 2pm.