The meeting will be moderated by Elsa-Petit with simultaneous arabic translation .

Rosette, Claire, Claude. My great-grandmother, my grandmother, my aunt. All three descend from the Barons of Menasce, a prominent family of the Jewish aristocracy of Alexandria. For a long time, I looked at this family and its history, as not of my own. Until the day I felt un urge to know them. “

Rosette is the Baroness Felix de Menasce; Claire, her daughter witnesses the change of the century and helps the Free French Forces during the Second World War; and finally Claude, beautiful and talented, marries the author of the monumental “Quatuor d’Alexandrie” but fails to escape a tragic life.

“Trois Alexandrines” is a tribute to this landmark city, and Sybille Vincendon continues the story of her ancestry, which has marked, in its own way, that of Alexandria.

Sibylle Vincendon specializes in architecture and urban planning and has long been a journalist for the daily newspaper Libération. This year, she published her first novel based upon a meeting; a meeting with her family, with a city, with their past, over three women of the century leading tumultuous and novel-like lives.