"Belle époque": L'abécédaire by Pascal Vienot (All Bligny from A to Z)

Name: "Belle époque" : L'abécédaire de Pascal Vienot (Tout Bligny de A à Z)
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Théâtre de Bligny - Compagnie du Théâtre de Bligny

Pascal Viénot, administrator of the Hospital of Bligny and passionate photographer immersed himself in the archives of the former health establishment of the "Works of Sanatoriums Populai...

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Pascal Vienot - Association du Centre Hospitalier de Bligny

Pascal Viénot, administrator of the Hospital Center of Bligny and passionate photographer immersed himself in the archives of the former health establishment of the "Works of the Popular Sanatoriums of Paris", on the hill of Bligny, straddling the communes of Fontenay-lès-Briis and Briis-sous-Forges to compile the texts of Dr Louis Guinard, Bligny’s first medical director who compose this surprising primer.

All Bligny from A to Z with a solid overview of a history far from over, that of the health facilities of the hill of Bligny...

This photographic and historical walk takes us into the life of the people of Bligny 120 years ago, in a world disappeared, predecessor of ours, totally distant from our life of the 21st century, and yet so similar as it is true that the very wide range of emotions that dot the life of each one has not changed for thousands of years...

The book is on sale on the ABC stand at the Théâtre de Bligny at the starting price of 25 €.

Monsieur Vienot will be present on the stand of "La belle époque": all Bligny from A to Z on Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 11:00 to 16:00 to present and sign his book. the stand will remain open for the sale of the book at the price of 25 € (check or cash)

À propos du lieu

Théâtre de Bligny - Compagnie du Théâtre de Bligny

Centre hospitalier 91640 Fontenay-lès-Briis

Essonne
Île-de-France

The theatre of Bligny was built within the sanatoriums of Bligny to "educate and entertain the residents of the sanatoriums", high point of a project "artistico-pedagogical" engaged in 1903.
The Théâtre de Bligny (architect: A. Colin) was inaugurated on Tuesday 19 September 1934\. Dr Urbain Guinard, who became physician-director at the end of 1939, greatly appreciated the cabaret singers; in his youth he had dreamed of becoming one of them.
From 1942, on his initiative, the theatre was regularly transformed into "Cabaret de la Longue Chaise".
Since the war, artists regularly "try" their new shows on the Bligny public.
Apart from the plays and the cabaret, it serves for the patronal feasts of Saint Louis, for Saint Catherine, the reception of the generous donors of the sanatoriums with the complicity of the stars, and for some feasts of Saint Nicholas.
It is also a cinema since its opening. In Bligny were held several film premieres by the authors Noël-Noël and Pierre Cardinal as well a