Rencontre avec Alexandrine Descotes
Alexandrine Descotes – Le nénuphar
Wed, 18 Nov 2026Afternoon – Evening
About this event
Ten years spent learning to live with a father’s silence and piecing together the story of a family linked to the history of medicine. An ode to courage and an extraordinary story.
“I write to crush shame. Crush shame and make pride spring forth. I write because I am proud of my father.”
In 2007, at the age of eighteen, Alexandrine Descotes asks herself for the first time why she, her brother, and her sister were born as triplets through in vitro fertilization. Seeking answers, she turns to her paternal grandparents. Her grandmother Colette then opens the door a little on a long-hidden family secret.
In the late 1950s in Lyon, a young couple’s life is turned upside down: their newborn’s body is unlike any other. Doctors call it an exceptional case, “as rare as winning the National Lottery jackpot.” Faced with their helplessness, Colette and Gérard refuse to accept their fate: they will do everything in their power to ensure their son can live with dignity. The narrator—and we with her—will discover the strength and courage this demands. Along the way: trials, encounters, and, above all, love.
Le Nénuphar is a subtle family investigation that spans silences and generations, an extraordinary story.
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Alessandro Pignocchi, author of the cult classic Petit traité d’écologie Sauvage, will be delighted to talk to us about his latest graphic essay: Manifeste pour une écologie politique, the first title in the brand-new Lignes d’action, a new collection of graphic essays in a portable format, designed to fuel debate ahead of the presidential election and nurture our belief in our ability to act on the present and the future.
A decision tree to understand everything about the ecological challenge in 2027.
How can politics rise to meet the ecological challenges? To try to answer this question, the book offers a decision tree and proceeds by elimination. Along the way, to support his approach and challenge his thinking, the author calls upon François Mitterrand, a little bustard who came to power through the ballot box, a social-democratic long-tailed tit, and a few others. What was missing in 1983 to maintain a left-wing course? Could things be different after 2027? Does the ecological question change the picture?
In the light of history, and given the power of financial and economic institutions, the narrow path taking shape rests on an alliance between an assertive institutional left and social movements organised as a popular power. And this is where ecology makes it possible to renew the revolutionary left’s hypotheses: the desiring force, the bonds that unite us, and the material strength of popular power are to be found, among other places, in the components of territorial ecology, in collectives of people connected to living environments and their non-human inhabitants…
For the convinced, the discouraged, and the undecided.
A wild ecology pamphlet.
