Book and reading accompany our lives. As great personalities express, reading brings us knowledge, takes us on a journey, activates our imagination and connects us to others. This simple object that is the book is therefore essential to us.
The Ministry of Culture launches a campaign in favour of reading, based on a commercial directed by Jacques DEMY. interview with Jack LANG who promotes the book as an object of pleasure and desire.
Dans son bureau, Marcel Pagnol parle à Michel Polac de ses lectures et notamment des livres scolaires qu'il affectionne tout particulièrement "Ca a été le rêve de ma vie de faire un livre où on prenne des dictées... Pour moi, fils d'instituteur et ancien professeur, c'est le comble de la gloire."
Georges SIMENON receives Michel POLAC in his house in Epalinges, Switzerland, to talk to him about his past readings. The writer evokes a childhood memory: the smell of the old books he imprinted in the communal library.