Free talk on Madame de Sévigné in a Versailles library
On Friday 20 November 2026 at 20:00 the Choiseul library in Versailles opens the Histoire de Lire festival with an inaugural talk. The author Jean-Noël Liaut presents his book Une amitié si française, about the friendship between two famous writers of the 17th century, Madame de Sévigné and Madame de La Fayette. The evening marks 400 years since the birth of Madame de Sévigné, and the actress Victoire Merlin reads extracts from the letters of the famous letter writer. The listing jokes that the marquise herself might turn up to disturb the talk. Entry is free. The evening lasts about an hour and a half, to roughly 21:30. A talk with readings in a library is a comfortable plan alone, because the speaker carries the evening and there is nobody to keep up with. «Attention la marquise elle-même pourrait débarquer pour troubler cette conférence !» Starts 20:00, ends about 21:30. Source: OpenAgenda — Histoire de Lire (open data).
