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.
Serge Portelli
MAGISTRATE
France
Biography
Serge Portelli is a magistrate, vice president of the Superior Court of Paris, president of the 12th criminal chamber, and a member of the judge’s union.
He was adviser to the president of the National Assembly and dean of investigating judges at the court of Créteil. He has written numerous books on politics, child abuse, the treatment of recidivism, and the reform of the justice system, including: Récidivistes (Grasset, 2008), Le Sarkozysme sans Sarkozy (Grasset, 2009), and Juger (Éditions de l’Atelier, 2011).
