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.
Pascal Durand
POLITICIAN
France
Pascal Durand succeeded Cécile Duflot in June 2012 at the head of Europe Écologie-Les Verts.
Raised in a family of activists, Pascal Durand studied law and became a business lawyer.
In 2009, he joined Daniel Cohn-Bendit and former journalist Jean-Paul Besset in preparing for the European parliamentary elections.
He supported Eva Joly’s 2012 presidential campaign.
After Cécile Duflot was named to the Ministère de l’Égalité des Territoires et du Logement, Durand became national secretary of ’Europe Écologie - Les Verts.
