About Gisèle Pelicot's book

  • Encounter at the FabricA

With the Youpi! café-bookshop

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On Monday 1st June 2026 at 7.30pm, La FabricA du Festival d'Avignon will host a meeting with Gisèle Pelicot to mark the publication of her book Et la joie de vivre (And the Joy of Living), written with Judith Perrignon.

Gisèle Pelicot © Pascal Ito, Éditions Flammarion

Presentation

"With this book, I want to put into words what I have been through. To say that I am no longer afraid of being alone, that I have rediscovered the joy of living. To say that I am alive."

By deciding to make the trial of her attackers public, she refused to be ashamed and chose to bring it into the light. Her story, both intimate and universal, recounts the shock, the breakdown, the reconstruction and the rediscovery of a possible joy. Through these rare words, an essential question brings us together: how can we continue to live, to love, to move forward after the unthinkable?

An event organised by the Youpi! café-bookshop and the Festival d'Avignon.

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