In general, everything is chic to the traditional annual dinner of the patrons of the BNF: the women, the men, the scenery. And the works, the tories grown of the house aspire to acquire, thanks to the money of the dinner, are always exception. In the glitz elegant room Labrouste, in Paris, on Thursday evening, the speech funny the hurricane Virginie Despentes made a sensation.

the Recipient of the award in 2019, the BNF, the author of Fuck me and Vernon Subutex behind a reputation is “sulphurous”, as recalled with a hint of indulgence, Jean-Claude Meyer, president of the circle of the BNF. Without a doubt, to show the height, Virginie Despentes started his speech by saying that she had never written, out of pure detestation. “I’ve always scrolled, and yet I knew that I was going to do, tonight,” she admitted. It is his long and fruitful relationship with public libraries allowed him to stick to the exercise.

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“Because they have no rays prohibited to the poor, libraries are the last place where the idea of public service has meaning and is prohibited”

Virginie Despentes

None of the 250 guests Thursday night, including the minister of Culture, Franck Riester, would not have been able to imagine: Virginie Despentes has lived a journey of initiation in libraries, beginning with that of Jarville-la-Malgrange, when she was a child. Nancy, to Paris, passing through Lyon, she has always found, in addition to books, librarians, eager and discrete. In the shadow of the shelves, nobody asked ever of the accounts at the young punk that she was. “The library of Paris XIII was a refuge, where I felt the most safe. Because they have no rays prohibited to the poor, libraries are the last place where the idea of public service has meaning and is defended”, she added, to the great joy of the audience. His conclusion slammed as a replica of Vernon Subutex. “Fucking price! Fucking FRENCH and fucking first speech!”.

“The taste is tiring like good company.”

Picabia, in the magazine “Dada”

The price BNF is endowed with 10,000 euros. It is organized by the circle of friends, unconditional support of the “BN”. The dinner of Thursday evening, would allow the purchase of a collection of Dada the magazine of avant-garde created in 1917. By way of teasing for the patrons, several numbers from a private collection had been made in a showcase. “The taste is tiring like good company”, there cinglait Picabia, in unison with Virginie Despentes. The reading of the manifesto of Dada, text delirious, wanted to participate in the purchase for public collections: “Freedom= DADA DADA DADA, roar of the colours creased, interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, the inconsistencies: LIFE.” Fucking review!