Anne Heurgon-Desjardins
Anne Heurgon-Desjardins (born 1899 – 1977, Manche) was a French philanthropist, the founder of the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle.
Biography
The daughter of professor and journalist
abbaye de Pontigny in the Yonne department, Anne Heurgon-Desjardins married the scholar Jacques Heurgon
(1903–1995) in 1926, a former student of her father.
After the death of her father in 1940, she decided with her mother to sell the abbaye de Pontigny in order to renovate the château of
abbaye de Royaumont (Val-d'Oise). In 1949, she sold a part of her father's library, which was bought by Henry Goüin and Isabel Goüin, then founded the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle and the association of the friends of Pontigny-Cerisy in 1952. In this place, she welcomed writers such as Raymond Aron, Martin Heidegger, Francis Ponge, Raymond Queneau, Eugène Ionesco and Alain Robbe-Grillet
.
Upon her death, her daughters Catherine and Edith Heurgon Peyrou in turn kept on perpetuating these meetings.
External links
- Une bibliothèque dans un jardin, Bibliothèque Henry et Isabel Goüin
- Site des colloques de Cerisy
- Correspondance avec Paul Desjardins, Jacques Heurgon et Anne Heurgon-Desjardins
- College Anne Heurgon-Desjardins Cerisy la salle
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