Michel Peyramaure is what is called a prolific author. With more than 120 novels, stories or prefaces, this writer from Brive has been writing since “Paradise between four walls“published in 1954. He continues to imagine and revise the history he loves so much, especially that of Corrèze. On January 30, 2022, he celebrates his centenary and, on that day, France Blue Limousin devotes an hour of program to him to discover it through an interview conducted by Francois David
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Francois David went to meet Michel Peyramaure at his home in Brive. From this friendly meeting results a very beautiful portrait of the author which evokes his childhood, his career as a writer, his Corrèze passion and his love for writing.
It was a privileged moment to spend a little more than an hour with the beautiful personality whose friendship I honor myself: Michel Peyramaure. We got to know each other when he was a journalist for the newspaper La Montagne and I liked to read his papers, particularly those that highlighted beautiful local personalities who, without him, would have remained anonymous as they led to the heart of our region admirable and in many respects exemplary actions
Then there is the famous writer, who had chosen to stay at home, with us and whose historical novels of the “bal des Ribauds” I loved so much until his last published last October: “la vie passionate about Marcelline Desbordes”.
Finally there is the man who, with two or three friends who have now disappeared, had the intuition to put the book in the public square, on the Place de la Guierle, in the heart of the market and which they named Foire of the book. We were in the middle of the 1970s. It had a success of esteem but, thanks to pioneers like Michel and to the will of the Mayor of Brive Jean Charbonnel, it left with a new ambition in November 1981… There is turned 50 last November and Michel is still there. He didn’t miss any.
And then there is the man, modest, discreet, with a kindness recognized by all, attentive (…) who from the top of his century watches with amusement and detachment, but with astonishing lucidity, the fears and hopes of this 21st century beginning.
As Péguy wrote so well, Michel knows that “if the hour which strikes has struck, if the time which passes has passed, remain the tomorrows and the day after tomorrow which will make each morning the dawn of a new beginning“.
Francois David
The teachers said: Peyramaure is a cretin, but a genius cretin / MPeyramaure
I’ve always had a facility for writing (…) I’m not saying talent! / MPeyramaure
It is an emotion that triggered a fascination for History / MPeyramaure
The Brive Book Fair started with a simple bench of books on the Place de la Guierle / MPeyramaure