Correspondent in London
To cross the inlets, you often need a smuggler.
And no one other than Ken Follett could better accompany the Heritage Foundation on its first foray into Great Britain.
It launched a new branch on Thursday in London.
One more cultural bridge at the time of Brexit.
During an event organized at the French Institute, Ken Follett recounted with emotion his evening of April 15, 2019, when a phone call from France told him that Notre-Dame was burning.
The next day, his publisher Robert Laffont offers him to write, in two weeks, a little book whose profits will go to reconstruction.
“But when it was ready, there were already 1 billion euros raised and my contribution did not bring much.
Hence the idea of assigning it to other projects.
And the beginning of his partnership with the Heritage Foundation.
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