Exhibition "Jacques Riviere and the modernity of the 1920s"

Jacques Rivière   Alain-Fournier   Jean Paulhan   

AAJRAF, Bernard Baillaud, 13 septembre 2025

Association of Friends of Jacques Riviere and Alain-Fournier
Exhibition "Jacques Riviere and the modernity of the 1920s"

from Saturday, September 13 to Saturday, November 29 at Leila Slimani Media Library in Bourges, an exhibition is being held as part of the centenary of Jacques Riviere's passing.
Based on literary archives kept at the Quatre Piliers heritage library, the exhibition presents Jacques Riviere in the context of a society shaken by war, a society in full transformation in which Jacques Riviere, director of the prestigious Nouvelle Revue Francaise, helped promote artistic and literary expression between continuity and rupture.

Around the exhibition, various activities are planned, including a lecture by Bernard Baillaud, President of the Society of Readers of Jean Paulhan: "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise between Riviere and Paulhan." The lecture takes place on Friday, September 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Leila Slimani Media Library in Bourges. Free entry.

For those who cannot travel to Bourges to discover this magnificent exhibition, it is possible to acquire the exhibition catalog included in the upcoming AJRAF Cahiers 10. If you are not a member of the association, you can order it by email at agathe.corre71@orange.fr for 25 euros. For those who joined for 2025 and live in the Paris region, you can pick it up at Salon de la Revue, from October 10 to 13, at Halle des Blancs Manteaux in Paris.

Alain-Fournier Prize

On the occasion of European Heritage Days, the Alain-Fournier Prize will be awarded to Ingrid Glowacki for "La poete aux mains noires," at 2:30 p.m. at Cite de l’Or in Saint-Amand-Montrond. Come in large numbers to meet her, reconnect with former laureates, and discover the new trophy sculpted for winners on the occasion of this prize's 40th anniversary.

111th anniversary of the death of Alain-Fournier and his companions

On the occasion of the 111th anniversary of Alain-Fournier's death, the municipality of Saint-Remy-la-Calonne is organizing on September 22 a commemoration at the site of the Alain-Fournier grave pit. The site has been redesigned, and the ceremony will inaugurate this new presentation. It will begin at 2:30 p.m. on September 22, 2025. Following the ceremony, a reception will be offered by the Comite du Souvenir francais, the Community of Communes of the Territory of Fresnes-en-Woevre, and the municipality of Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.