The Le Temps de Lire association is organizing this weekend of May 3 and 4, 2025, a free book fair open to all audiences, including the youngest. All literary genres are represented with more than 70 authors and exhibitors. Exhibitions and thematic conferences are offered to visitors. In 2025 the exhibitions will focus on the American camp of St Benoît, the massacre of Maillé and the free zone in Loches, while conferences should deal with the role and organization of the secret services as well as their influence to the present day. Among the authors present, the Saumurois Bernard Wuthrich who will present his collection of news there, “In clouds and other news”published by Maïa editions in June 2024 (reread our articles on the subject). In addition, Chinon will welcome Sunday July 13, the departure of the 9th stage of the Male Tour de France. The Tour de France female Zwift will also cross Chinon on July 29. On the occasion of the arrival of these international sporting events, the City of Chinon with the Community of Communes Chinon Vienne et Loire and the Chinon Book Fair organized a free news competition and open to all with two categories for college students and high school students (- 18 years old) and for adults. A boon for our Saumur author specializing in short format. “As part of this show was organized a news competition on the theme” The Tour de France “, a subject of which my total ignorance was the main reason for my desire to participate. So I wrote a new “Le Tour de France de François”. The intrigue is, at least at the beginning, in the peloton of the famous round in which François, a little runner participates for the first time. The last sentence of this text: he had lost the Tour de France but he had won a family. »»
Practical info: bar and small catering is offered on site. Saturday May 3 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Rabelais space – free. Information: [email protected], www.livreschinon.com
