The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Robert Badinter
STATESMAN / ATTORNEY
France
Biography
A statesman, attorney, philosopher and writer, Robert Badinter will go down in history as the justice minister who abolished the death penalty in 1981 during the presidency of François Mitterrand. Today, he fights tirelessly for conditions of detention and justice worthy of human beings, even incarnating this struggle.
He has adapted Victor Hugo’s short novel Claude Gueux, turning it into a libretto entitled Claude. To celebrate the creation of this opera, in the scope of the Justice/Injustice festival, Robert Badinter will give a conference on Victor Hugo and his struggle against injustice and barbarism.
