Groupe de lecture “Le livre des heures” de Anne Delaflotte Mehdevi

Once a month, the reading group meets up to discuss a couple of books selected in advance (from classical to contemporary French literature) and discovers other members’ views on them. Meetings take place at the Institut français d’Écosse, usually on the last Tuesday of the month.

About the book :

Marguerite, the daughter and granddaughter of illuminators, lives on the Pont Notre-Dame. Her twin brother is seriously ill, and her mother would prefer it were Marguerite. Every day, she burdens her daughter, and every day, to escape her mother, Marguerite takes refuge in the illumination workshop and its fabulous colors. She will succeed, not without difficulty, in joining the family workshop. Her life will seem mapped out from then on; until the day her apothecary godfather introduces her to Daoud.