If Michel Field, director of culture and performing arts at France Télévisions, owes his first literary emotion to the
Three Musketeers
, by Dumas;
Camille Diao, 31, columnist for "C ce soir", on France 5, quotes
Les Misérables
and Harry Potter.
Asked to choose their favorite book, the French chose Hugo's masterpiece and Rowling's saga, but also
Cyrano de Bergerac
, Rostand,
Le Parfum
, Süskind, the One Piece manga, Oda,
Le Lord of the Rings
, by Tolkien or
Kilometer Zero
, from Ankaoua.
Symbolizing all generations on France 2, Michel Field and Camille Diao make the "Favorite Book of the French", adapted from the British "The Big Read", an entertaining evening, open to pop culture.
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Each book benefits from an original visual presentation and the guests share their passion, whether they are artists, actors or authors, such as Gims, Juliette Binoche, Gérard and Manu Lanvin, Joël Dicker, Grand Prix of the French Academy or Brigitte Giraud , Prix Goncourt 2022. Michel Field specifies:
“This is not a scientific survey, but a pretext to talk about our fads, a kind of uninhibited national game to provoke a conversation on books.
"
Camille Diao, completes:
"We place literature in a global cultural context, not too Germanopratin, and find in writing links between books and series or music.
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More than 100,000 people over the age of 15 voted during the two digital consultations to elect fifty, then twenty-five favorites.
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