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The Arts Circle

The Cercle des Arts is a monthly event dedicated to dialogue and sharing, organized at Domaine Les Crayères. At each meeting, guests from the worlds of culture, literature, and public figures are invited to discuss their careers and their visions. These evenings focus on exchange and encounters, in a spirit of closeness and conviviality. The Cercle des Arts is held at the Brasserie Le Jardin, in the elegant Salon Polignac. The evening includes the conference followed by a cocktail reception with Laurent-Perrier Champagne. Price: €100 per person (Including the conference and cocktail reception)

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Meet Alexandre Tharaud

  • Come and meet Alexandre Tharaud on the occasion of the release of his new book "TOUCHÉ" next April. An internationally renowned pianist, he performs with the world's greatest orchestras. His playing, both sensitive and remarkably precise, makes him one of the most inspiring performers of our time. With great sincerity, he reveals the intimate foundations on which his international reputation is built and invites readers to discover the journey of an artist possessed by music.

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, April 9, 2026\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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Meet Bartabas

  • Bartabas is the guest of honor at the next Cercle des Arts. A unique figure in the French artistic landscape, he has invented a form of theater in which the horse, now a true partner in the performance, becomes a poetic subject at the heart of the staging.His recent foray into fiction extends this multifaceted artistic vocation, immersing us in the hallucinatory, lyrical, and irreverent universe he has created.

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, January 29, 2026\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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Meeting Cédric Sapin-Defour

  • Cédric Sapin-Defour will be the guest of the Cercle des Arts on November 20 for a discussion about his new book, Où les étoiles tombent (Where the Stars Fall). Following the success of his book Son odeur après la pluie (Her Scent After the Rain), the author focuses on those who have escaped the worst. He explores what we go through when hardship does not destroy us, but silently transforms us. Even if the other survives, what dies within us?

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, November 20, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: €100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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Meet Justine Levy

  • The Cercle des Arts is honored to welcome Justine Lévy, writer and editor, for a discussion of her latest book, Une drôle de peine (A Strange Sorrow). "I couldn't be a child, and I don't know how to be an adult." In this deeply personal account, she explores this intimate flaw. Through precise and sensitive words, she evokes a love that attempts to repair and recover what has been lost.\nA deeply moving text, between fragility and tenderness.

Event details:\nDate: Wednesday, December 3, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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The Cercle des Arts welcomes Christine Angot

  • A member of the Académie Goncourt, the writer will open the Cercle des Arts season on September 4. She will present "La Nuit sur commande" (Night on Demand), an intimate and unique work that offers a subtle meditation on the link between creation and memory. In a deeply sensitive journey, art does not merely illustrate the past: it shakes it up, illuminates it, and sometimes reinvents it.

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, September 4, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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Meeting Karine Tuil

  • Karine Tuil, a leading voice in contemporary literature, will be the guest of honor at the Cercle des Arts. The writer, who has won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Prix Interallié, will present her latest novel, La guerre par d’autres moyens (War by Other Means).Through the story of Dan Lehman, a former president seeking redemption, Karine Tuil explores the consuming ambitions, addictions, and clandestine struggles that shape contemporary human comedy.

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, May 22, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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Marie Drucker, guest of honor at the Cercle des Arts

  • The Cercle des Arts is honored to welcome Marie Drucker, an iconic figure in the French media landscape. A television, radio, and print journalist, documentary filmmaker and producer, screenwriter, and author, she will speak at the next conference to share her perspective as an author and unveil her latest book, Nos cœurs déracinés (Our Uprooted Hearts), which has just been published. In this work, she goes back in time and questions the threatened but enduring legacy of her own identity. It tells the story of her family, whose exceptional destiny, like that of many others, led them to choose French identity.

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, April 10, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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The Arts Circle welcomes Tahar Ben Jelloun

  • The Cercle des Arts is deeply honored to welcome Tahar Ben Jelloun, internationally renowned writer and poet, for an exceptional evening during which he will present his latest novel, Ils se sont tant aimés (They Loved Each Other So Much).In this deeply moving work, Tahar Ben Jelloun delicately and intensely explores the power of first love, the fragility of desire, and the ups and downs of relationships over time. Through his unique perspective and singular writing style, he invites everyone to reflect on the universal bonds that shape our lives.

Event details:\nDate: Thursday, March 13, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: Starting at 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne

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Meet Laure Adler

  • - The Voice of Women - "I am an old, heterosexual, cisgender white woman, a mother, a grandmother of petty bourgeois origin, belonging to a privileged class, committed to the left for decades and still believing in it. Suffice it to say that I am not at all fashionable. But I am a feminist, and above all, a feminist."

"I am an old, heterosexual, cisgender white woman, a mother, a grandmother from a lower-middle-class background, belonging to a privileged class, committed to the left for decades and still believing in it. Suffice it to say that I am not at all fashionable. But I am a feminist, and above all, a feminist."

  • Event details:\nDate: Thursday, January 16, 2025\nLocation: Brasserie Le Jardin, Salon Polignac\nReception: From 6:30 p.m.\nConference start time: 7:00 p.m.\nPrice per person: $100\nIncludes the conference and a cocktail reception with Laurent Perrier Champagne
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