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Book your tickets online (from Monday 24 November), or at theTourist Office, Place Royale, Pau (from Tuesday 25 November).
Sharing ideasMore than a literary event
Since 2014, Ideas have been leading the world in Pau. Literary meetings and conferences where ideas are exchanged and points of view confronted around a theme that resonates in everyone’s lives. Over the past 9 editions, Pau has talked about childhood, happiness, the will to live, our reasons for hope, and in 2024 about the way people live.
Around twenty leading figures in their fields, artists, scientists, journalists, researchers, sociologists, philosophers, writers and more, are invited to the Rencontres littéraires paloises to share their thoughts on the chosen theme over 3 days.
It was a major cultural event with national resonance, attracting nearly 30,000 visitors.
If you like to exchange ideas and get your thinking caps on, this is the place to be on the last weekend of November.
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A unique event that exists nowhere else. At the Palais Beaumont, a succession of prestigious guests take part in meetings, conferences and public debates, sharing their experiences and thoughts before meeting the public.
These conferences are accompanied by screenings at the Le Méliès cinema, meetings organised by the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, and a book fair bringing together publishers and writers at the Palais Beaumont. This is the place for meetings and signing sessions between writers and readers.
Les Idees Menent Le Monde 01 Communaute Dagglomeration Pau Bearn Pyrenees Jean Michel DucassePhilippe Lapousterle is the event’s general commissioner. Since 2014, at the instigation of François Bayrou – Mayor of Pau, this journalist has been organising these interdisciplinary meetings between enlightened speakers and a public thirsty to think about the world.
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Les Idees Menent Le Monde 12 Communaute Dagglomeration Pau Bearn Pyrenees Jean Michel DucasseOver the years...
It’s ‘The place to be’ for people who think, reflect and decipher the world we live in. Since 2014, many have contributed their views on a variety of themes that resonate with the lives of each and every one of us. Some previous editions:
- 2021: Rebuilding, rebuilding ourselves
François Villeroy de Galhau, Souâd Ayada, Bertrand Piccard, José Bové, General François Lecointre, Thomas Huchon, Raphaël Glucksmann, Marc Dugain, Claude Laharie, Mélina Burlaud and Claire Beaudoin, Claude Habib, Boris Cyrulnik, Philippe Val, journalist, Jean Le Cam, Marie de Hennezel, Corneille, Étienne Klein… - 2022: Envie de vivre
Tony Estanguet, Julie Gayet, Claude Lelouch and Bernard Cazeneuve, Raphaëlle Bacqué, Jean-François Kahn, Erik Orsena, Alain Baraton, head gardener at the Château de Versailles, Elsa Boublil, Philippe Torreton, and Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market… - 2023: Our reasons for hope
Jean Luc Alexandre, Monique Atlan, Jean Birnbaum, Claude Boli , Yves Camdeborde, Patrice Duhamel, Roger Pol Droit , Marek Halter, Rachel Khan, Macha Méril, Philippe Lenoir , Nadau, Tareq Oubrou, Nathalie Saint Cricq… - 2024: Is this how men live?
Gilles Kepel, Laurent Mauduit, Atiq Rahimi, Marie-France Hirigoyen, Daniel Herrero, Gaspard Koenig, Ayyam Sureau, Cynthia Fleury, Albert Moukheiber, Chlotilde Chamussy, Lucas Pacotte, François Sureau, Patrice Franceschi, Philippe Val, Pierre Assouline, Florence Aubenas, Jean-François Colosimo, Jérôme Fourquet, Aziliz Le Corre, Nicolas Bouzou, Isabelle Ithurburu, Gisèle Montaut, Frédéric Encel… - 2025: Reborn
Philippe Aghion, Maryse Burgot, Paule Constant, Kamel Daoud, Raphaël Enthoven, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Etienne Klein, Alexandre Lacroix, Noëlle Lenoir, Chloé Morin, Darius Rochebin, Cédric Sapin-Defour, Peggy Sastre, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Hubert Védrine.Jean Luc Alexandre, Monique Atlan, Jean Birnbaum, Claude Boli , Yves Camdeborde, Patrice Duhamel, Roger Pol Droit , Marek Halter, Rachel Khan, Macha Méril, Philippe Lenoir , Nadau, Tareq Oubrou, Nathalie Saint Cricq…
- 2021: Rebuilding, rebuilding ourselves
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