Max Jacob, an improbable meeting: talk and readings, Drancy
On Sunday 29 November 2026 at 14:00 the Mémorial de la Shoah in Drancy holds a meeting for the centenary of the birth of Max Jacob. The listing tells how in 1941 the poet Max Jacob met Jacques Evrard, a 17-year-old who wanted to become a writer, and wrote the same day his famous text Conseils à un jeune poète. Three years later their fates were opposite: Max Jacob, arrested because he was Jewish, was interned at Drancy and died there in 1944, while Evrard joined the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme and then the Waffen-SS. The author and journalist Philippe Douroux retraces the two paths, with readings of texts by Max Jacob by the actor Emmanuel Houzé, hosted by Eduardo Castillo. Entry is free within the available places, and a shuttle runs from the Mémorial in Paris at 13:00. It is easy to attend alone. «À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Max Jacob.» Starts 14:00, ends about 16:00. Source: Paris city open data — Que faire à Paris (Ville de Paris, ODbL). The listing gives the end as 16:00 and the entry as free within the places available.
