Theater L'Empreinte: Reading/ Music L'Empreinte

8 Quai de la République

It is the work of Pierre Bergounioux, a Corrèze-born author, that gave its name to the Scène nationale L’empreinte. A tribute narrative to the Limousin lands that Babx sets to music magnificently. "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, an essayist drawing his literary material from autobiography, tells of the hills, the undulating landscapes, the long time of stones and that of the men and women of Limousin. What traces did they leave...