François REBSAMEN, mayor of Dijon, president of Dijon metropolis, will distinguish three personalities inseparable from the cultural life of our city and its region.
François REBSAMEN will first award the Knight’s Cross in the Order of Arts and Letters to Marie-Pascale CHARBONNEAU, then the Knight’s Cross in the National Order of Merit to Christine LAMARRE and finally the Knight’s Cross in the Order of Arts and Letters to Stephen BLANCHARD.
Librarian, Marie-Pascale CHARBONNEAU has never ceased throughout her professional life to pass on the taste for reading to everyone. After having been a housewife for a long time to raise her two children, this lover of literature graduated as a librarian in Dijon and after a first position in Ain, arrived in Chenôve in 1982 with the mission of opening and directing the municipal library, current François MITTERRAND media library. Marie-Pascale CHARBONNEAU has helped to grow and develop this place which has become highly symbolic and has more than 100,000 titles, including the largest comic book collection in the Dijon metropolitan area. Before being assigned in September 2007 to the cultural affairs of the city of Chenôve, she devoted a quarter of a century to the service of books and readers, whom she accompanied and advised with availability and passion.
Dijonnaise by heart and spirit, Christine LAMARRE is a specialist in the history of Burgundy. Emeritus professor of universities, she is an associate researcher at the Georges Chevrier center, now LIR3S UMR 7366, Interdisciplinary research laboratory ” Societies, sensibilities, care ”. Christine LAMARRE devotes her career as a historian mainly to the study of old towns and in particular small towns in the last century of the Ancien Régime – as such, she animates and chairs for several years the History Society of Small Towns – is passionate about the social history of cities as well as all aspects of urban life and heritage. His interest is also in political life with the study of elective procedures under the Ancien Régime and the emergence of modern voting systems under the French Revolution. Well rooted in her hometown, she is strongly involved in the cultural city of Dijon. Member of several learned societies and of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles-Lettres of Dijon, which she chaired from 2013 to 2017, she is involved in the Society for the Renewal of Old Dijon (now Association Dijon , history and heritage) of which she was the president between 2005 and 2013. She was appointed a qualified member of the Regional Commission of Heritage and Sites (CRPS) and of the extramunicipal commission of the safeguarded sector of Dijon. Author of numerous publications, Burgundy is the privileged ground of his work.
An accountant by profession, Stephen BLANCHARD has held various positions in the Dijon region, including 37 years in the Pomona company and held numerous union mandates. He felt very young that poetry would accompany his life. He wrote from the age of 12 and published his first collection “Joie de vivre” in 1977. Author of 26 books, this poet and writer contributes to the influence of poetry and puts his experience at the service of the greatest number. President-founder in 1974 of the association ” The Poets of friendship-poets without borders », Stephen BLANCHARD directs the international poetry review Florilège and organizes each year, with the Ministry of Culture, the contest of the ten words of the French language. An active member of the Society of French Poets in Paris, he is also involved in the city of the Dukes. Since 2001, in collaboration with the city of Dijon, the Yolaine and Stephen BLANCHARD poetry prize has been awarded each year to a French or foreign author. For 47 years, Stephen BLANCHARD has had more than 2,500 readings and shows organized in schools, libraries, hospitals, social and medico-social establishments … during the spring of the poets, on the occasion of the telethon or even for ” The chain of hope ”. A work and a talent in the service of the arts and letters honored with numerous official distinctions among which: the first price of the literary price of the city of Bordeaux in 1979 for the collection “Under the stones”, the gold medal of the Society of Encouragement to Good in 1999, and with his wife, a woman of letters, the International Prize for Patrons of Poetry by the Claudine Academy of TENCIN in 2020.
Saturday November 6, 2021 at 11 a.m. Salle des Etats Town Hall – Dijon
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