The President went to the Book Festival this Friday, April 12. The opportunity for the Head of State to return to the practice of reading in decline among young people.
“The president seemed very receptive to me and very happy to be able to discuss here,” confides Antoine Caro, director of Seghers editions. The Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, is expected to make other announcements before the end of the Book festival, this Sunday, April 14. The President committed to setting up a contribution to the second-hand book market, in order to prevent its players from circumventing the law providing for a single price for new books in France. He told me that nothing could please him more than books as a gift. ” Still in the middle of the Festival aisles, he recalled the government's actions for better access to culture and books: Library Plan, Culture Pass, reading aloud in schools... Likewise, as he called the Frenchman to “do at least 30 minutes of sport every day”