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.
Pierre Larrouturou
© Pascal Ito - Flammarion
POLITICIAN - ECONOMIST
France
Biography
Pierre Larrouturou is a politician, economist, and Île-de-France Regional Council member. He helped create the Robien law on working hours (1996), and in 2012, with the help of Stéphane Hessel, Edgar Morin, Michel Rocard and numerous intellectuals, he created the Roosevelt 2012 collective, which presented fifteen proposals to avoid an economic collapse and create a democratic Europe. In November 2013, he created the new political party Nouvelle Donne (New Order).
> La Gauche n’a plus droit à l’erreur avec Michel Rocard (Flammarion, 2013)
> La Grande Trahison (Flammarion, 2013)
