It is the most famous library in France.
In front of her, from Thiers, pose the presidents of the French Republic.
Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou had not departed from this tradition.
In 1974, the newly elected President of the Republic broke with her, preferring a French flag to the decoration of the Elysée's bindings, for a photo signed Jacques Henri Lartigues.
Above all, do not draw from this aesthetic bias that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was indifferent to literary matters.
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It was July 1979. Direct from the Hôtel Marigny, near the Élysée Palace, Bernard Pivot introduced the 199th program of “Apostrophes”.
Its theme: Maupassant.
Surrounded by writers and academics, the incumbent president presents himself as
"a reader"
of the author of
Une vie
, before discussing his work, learned and pedagogue as usual.
Reader, Giscard was, assiduously, modestly.
To his visitors, he readily spoke of his readings, of Maupassant therefore, or of Tolstoy
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