Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Alice Renard, autrice d’un premier roman, « La Colère et l’Envie », publié par les éditions Héloïse D’Ormesson en 2023, dans lequel elle explore la complexité des relations de l’héroïne, une adolescente neuroatypique, et son ouverture progressive au monde. Au fil de la conversation, Lauren Bastide et Alice Renard évoquent le sentiment de frustration à l’origine du roman et de son titre, le désir de l’autrice de célébrer la beauté du monde ainsi que le pouvoir émancipateur de l’écriture. Ensemble, elles reviennent également sur son goût pour la littérature du Moyen Âge et pour les différentes formes d’écriture, du théâtre à la poésie.  En marge des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, le podcast « les Rencontres » met en lumière l’acte de naissance d’une écrivaine dans une série imaginée par CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison. Alice Renard, La Colère et l’Envie, © Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2023.  Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le chevalier de la charrette, XIIème siècle. Albert Camus, Noces, © Éditions Gallimard, 1950. Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, © Éditions Gallimard, 1964. Alice Renard, Peaux vives © Alice Renard Laurent Bénégui, Les étoiles doubles, © Julliard, 2023. © Le Monde. © Le Prix Méduse. © Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet de la Vocation © Radio France - France Inter. Milos Forman, Amadeus, © The Saul Zaentz Company, 1984

For this thirteenth edition of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon] that was held at the 7L library in Paris, CHANEL and Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassador and spokesperson for the House, invited novelist and essayist Rachel Cusk, along with model and friend of the House Naomi Campbell. Moderated by author and critic Erica Wagner, this encounter dedicated to the work of Rachel Cusk considers motherhood, how to explore personal stories through literature and the rework of the literary form it requires: “I think I always felt that my duty was to reality and how the novel could show that and contain it.” Extract from A Life's Work, Copyright © 2001, 2008, Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. Excerpt from A Life's Work: on Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2001 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved. Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 1993 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved. © Whitbread PLC. © Costa Book Awards The Country Life by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. The Country Life by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 1997 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Picador. All Rights Reserved. In the Fold © Rachel Cusk, 2005. Arlington Park © Rachel Cusk, 2006. Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2006 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved. Outline Copyright © 2014 Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. Outline by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2014 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved. Transit by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2018. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Transit by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved. Kudos by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2019. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Kudos by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2018 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved. Extract from Second Place by Rachel Cusk © Rachel Cusk, 2021 Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Excerpt from Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2021 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted/Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved. Extract from Second Place Copyright © 2021 Rachel Cusk, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. © Association Prix Femina. Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, © Faber & Faber, 2019. Extract from Aftermath: on marriage and separation by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2012 by Rachel Cusk. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved. Parade © Rachel Cusk, 2024. Parade by Rachel Cusk. Copyright © 2024 by Rachel Cusk. Forthcoming from Faber & Faber Ltd. and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June 2024. All Rights Reserved. From The New York Times Magazine. © 2016, The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Used under license Mrs Dalloway © Virginia Woolf, 1925 Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter, Translated by Ann Goldstein, © Europa, 2008. First published 2006 by Edizioni e/o as La figlia oscura                                                                     La figlia oscura by Elena Ferrante © 2006 by Edizioni E/O.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Sheena Patel, writer of “I’m a Fan”, her first novel published by Rough Trade Books in 2022, and soon to be published in French by Gallimard. In her novel, Sheena Patel explores the blurred lines between reality and the online world through the involvement of an unnamed female character in an unequal romantic relationship. Through this conversation with Erica Wagner, Sheena Patel talks about her desire to capture the spirit of her time. They also evoke “Four Brown Girls Who Write”, a collective of women writers created with her friends to support each other in their writing processes. As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. Sheena Patel, I'm a fan, © Sheena Patel, 2022. Cover © Granta Books, 2023.   © Rough Trade Books.   Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., published by  Ballantine Books, copyright © 1992, 1955 by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.   Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, Random House, 2020.   Martine Syms, Shame Space, 2020. © Martine Syms. Published by Primary Information.   Martine Syms, The African Desperate, © Dominica Publishing, 2022   Maggie Nelson, Bluets, © Copyright 2009 by Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, 2009   The Argonauts © 2015 by Maggie Nelson. First published by Graywolf Press, Minneapolis.   © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2024.   Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School, © Grove Press, 1984.  Celia Dale's A Spring Love is available from Daunt Books Publishing. © The British Book Awards.   © The Women's Prize.   © Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.   © Jhalak Prize.   © Foyles. All Rights Reserved.   © Los Angeles Times.  Sheena Patel, I'm a fan, Translated into French by French novelist and translator Marie Darrieussecq, © Éditions Gallimard, 2025.   Juan Carlos Medina, The Limehouse Golem, ©  New Sparta Films, 2016.  Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sunnah Khan, Sheena Patel, 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE, © Rough Trade Books, 2020.  © 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE

Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Joséphine Tassy, autrice d’un premier roman, « L’Indésir », publié par L’Iconoclaste en 2023, dans lequel elle explore les thèmes du deuil et de la quête identitaire au travers du personnage de Nouria. Au fil de la conversation, Lauren Bastide et Joséphine Tassy évoquent le style de l’autrice, mêlant prose et poésie, et l’importance du travail sur la forme. Elles reviennent également sur sa newsletter, « Lézarde », une initiative originale destinée à maintenir un lien avec ses lecteurs. En marge des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, le podcast « les Rencontres » met en lumière l’acte de naissance d’une écrivaine dans une série imaginée par CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison. Joséphine Tassy, L'Indésir, © L'Iconoclaste, 2023. © L'Iconoclaste.

Primary vocation of the House, CHANEL Haute Couture allows all dreams and creative audacities. In this second episode, recorded in the apartment of Gabrielle Chanel at the 31, rue Cambon ahead of the Spring-Summer 2024 Haute Couture show, actress and House ambassador Margaret Qualley shares her personal experience of CHANEL Haute Couture, the emotions it encloses, and opens up about her artistic career and relationship to time. A conversation led by Géraldine Sarratia.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Huma Qureshi, writer of “Playing Games”, her first novel published by Sceptre in 2023. In her novel, the author draws a nuanced portrait of sisterhood, family, love and loss through the arc of two main characters, Hana and Mira. Throughout the conversation, Erica Wagner and Huma Qureshi evoke Alice Munro, Ann Patchett or even Ann Taylor, feminine writers who deeply inspired her to write about quiet, but significant, everyday moments. They also discuss how the author returns to the subject of real life informing fiction in “Playing Games”, a recurrent theme in her writing. As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. Huma Qureshi, Playing Games, © Sceptre, 2023. © Huma Qureshi, Playing Games, 2023.  Cover: © Charlotte Ager.  “Playing Games by Huma Qureshi review – a poignant sisterhood story" par Sana Goyal, © Guardian News & Media Ltd, 2024. © The University of Warwick. © Sciences PO. Huma Qureshi, In Spite of Oceans: Migrant Voices, © The History Press, 2014. © Harper’s Bazaar. Huma Qureshi, The Jam Maker, © Harper's Bazaar, 2020. Huma Qureshi, How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures, © Elliott & Thompson, 2021. Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love, © Sceptre, 2021. © Books Are My Bag Indie Book Awards. © The Jhalak Prize. © The Edge Hill Prize, Edge Hill University "In conversation with Huma Qureshi", © Sonder & Tell, 2021. © The Financial Times.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Selby Wynn Schwartz, writer of “After Sappho”, her first novel published by Galley Beggar Press in 2022. Together, they talk about her insatiable appetite for literature as a child and the way it led her to becoming a writer. They also evoke Lina Poletti, Sarah Bernhardt, Virginia Woolf or even Nathalie Barney, the women artists who inspired “After Sappho”, the book in which Selby Wynn Schwartz pays tribute to them. As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho, © Selby Wynn Schwartz 2002, first published by Galley Beggar Press, 2022. Quote from the interview "The Galley Beggar Q&A: Selby Wynn Schwartz", © Galley Beggar Press, 2022. Quote from the article "After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz review – in praise of visionary women" written by Lara Feigel, © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2023. © Booker Prize Foundation. © The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023. © University of Edinburgh. Selby Wynn Schwartz, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and their Afterlives, © Selby Wynn Schwartz University of Michigan Press, 2019. © Lambda Literary.  © American Society for Theatre Research. Selby Wynn Schwartz, A Life in Chameleons, © Selby Wynn Schwartz, 2023.  © Reflex Press.  © University of California, Berkeley.  © Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.  The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema by Laurent Mannoni, translated by Richard Crangle. Translation © University of Exeter Press, 2000.  Anne Carson, Short Talks, © Brick Books, 2015. Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson, © Virago, 2003. © Galley Beggar Press. Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson, © Virago, 2003. Assia Djebar, Women of Algiers in their apartments, © Caraf Books, 1999. Assia Djebar, Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement © Éditions des femmes, 1980. Igiaba Scego, The Color Line, Translated by John Cullen and Gregory Conti, first published in the English language by Other Press in 2022. Igiaba Scego, La linea del colore, first published in Italy in 2020 by Bompiani, © Igiaba Scego, 2020. Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos. © 2018 Dionne Brand. All rights reserved. Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, © WW Norton & Company, 2019. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars, © SUNY Press, 2015. Alessandra Cenni, Gli Occhi Eroici : Sibilla Aleramo, Eleonora Duse, Cordula Poletti : una storia d'amore nell'Italia della belle époque, © Mursia, 2011. Cordula « Lina » Poletti, Il Poema Della Guerra, © Nicola Zanichelli, 1918. All rights reserved. Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928. © LASTESIS © Non Una Di Meno. All rights reserved.

At the heart of the three-day exhibition Manchestermodern: past present future, curated by Factory International and CHAOS SixtyNine with the support of CHANEL, a special edition of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon] was held at the Victoria Baths in Manchester. In conversation with writer and critic Erica Wagner, author Jeanette Winterson, CHANEL ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi along with actress and CHANEL ambassador Kristen Stewart reveal what constitutes, according to them, the powers of literature. Together, they also talk about the books that are dear to them and the female literary figures who inspire them. © 2023 by Cities of Literature. All rights reserved. © 2023 Manchester Literature Festival. All rights reserved. © Jeanette Winterson. All rights reserved. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, ©  Grove Press, 1997. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Vintage, 1997. Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, © Grove Press, 1997.  Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, Vintage, 1997. Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story, © Grove Press, 2019.  Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Vintage, 2019. Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes, © Grove Press, 2021.  Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes, Vintage, 2021. Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories, ©  Grove Press, 2023. Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories, Vintage, 2023. ©  UK Honours System. ©  University of Oxford. All rights reserved. ©  The University of Manchester. © Toronto International Film Festival. All rights reserved. Into the Wild, © Paramount, 2007. Courtesy of River Road Entertainment, LLC. PANIC ROOM © 2002 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Catherine Hardwicke, Bill Condon, Chris Weitz, David Slade, Twilight, © Summit Entertainment, 2008-2012. All rights reserved. Pablo Larrain, Spencer, © Shoebox Films, 2021. A Fabula, Komplizen, Shoebox Films Production, 2021. © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All rights reserved. © Académie des Césars. All rights reserved. Olivier Assayas, Clouds of Sils Maria, © CG Cinéma, 2014. Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water, © Scott Free Productions. All rights reserved.  Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Vintage, 2012. Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, © Grove Press, 2012.  Kate Zambreno, Heroines, © Semiotext(e), 2012. © Theatre Royal Stratford East. © ITN / Getty images. Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey, © Grove Press, 1994.  Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929. Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.

Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Seynabou Sonko, autrice de « Djinns », son premier roman publié aux Éditions Grasset en 2023. Ensemble, elles évoquent les mythes et rituels sénégalais à l’origine de l’univers onirique développé dans son livre et leur influence sur son écriture. Elles reviennent sur son désir d’explorer, grâce à la littérature, la complexité de la nature humaine et sur la manière dont elle a élaboré un langage original, empreint d’oralité et de références socio-culturelles.  En marge des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, le podcast « les Rencontres » met en lumière l’acte de naissance d’une écrivaine dans une série imaginée par CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison. Seynabou Sonko, Djinns, © Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2023.   Stephenie Meyer, Saga Twilight @Hachette Livre, 2005-2008.   © J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007, Harry Potter.   © Université Paris 8 ©2019 - Tous droits réservés.

Pour la douzième édition des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison, ont invité l’écrivaine et scénariste Maria Pourchet, en compagnie de l’actrice et ambassadrice de la Maison Rebecca Marder. Animée par la journaliste et autrice Lauren Bastide, cette conversation consacrée à l’œuvre de Maria Pourchet revient sur les pouvoirs qu’elle attribue à la littérature et l’importance de faire place aux nuances afin de « laisser à la pensée le temps de se faire ». Une performance musicale de l’artiste musicienne Clara Ysé, accompagnée du pianiste Camille El Bacha, a conclu ce rendez-vous. Giorgio Agamben, Qu'est-ce que le contemporain ?, Traduction par Maxime Rovere, © Éditions Payot & Rivages, 2008.   Maria Pourchet, Western, © Éditions Stock, 2023.   © Comédie-Française.   Maria Pourchet, Feu, © Fayard, 2021.   © Amis du Théâtre Populaire. Tous droits réservés.   Maria Pourchet, Toutes les femmes sauf une, © Fayard, 2018.   Albert Cohen, Le livre de ma mère, © Éditions Gallimard, 1954.   Romain Gary, Pseudo, publié par Le Mercure de France © Éditions Gallimard, 1976.   Romain Gary, Gros-Câlin, publié par Le Mercure de France © Éditions Gallimard, 1974.   Romain Gary, La vie devant soi, publié par Le Mercure de France © Éditions Gallimard, 1975.   Clara YSÉ « Douce », autrice-compositrice : Clara YSÉ Éditions Tomboylab et Sony Music Publishing.   Clara YSÉ « La Maison », autrice-compositrice : Clara YSÉ Éditions Tomboylab et Sony Music Publishing.