Theatre L'Empreinte: Reading/ Music L'Empreinte

8 Quai de la République

It is from Pierre Bergounioux’s work, Corrèze-born author, that the Scène nationale owes its name L’empreinte. A narrative homage to the Limousin lands that Babx magnificently set to music. “I am from Brive. If it took me a long time to conceive that one could be born elsewhere, live differently, it was by force of circumstances.” In L’empreinte, published in 1997, Pierre Bergounioux, essayist drawing on autobiography for his literary material, tells the story of the hills, the hilly landscapes, the long time of stones and that of the men and women of Limousin. What traces did he leave…