Pierre Assouline face to face with Monégasque Journalists

On March 23 at the Hotel Hermitage Monaco, Monaco Press Club invited the journalist and writer, Pierre Assouline, to meet Monegasque journalists.

Journalist, novelist, biographer, member of the Académie Goncourt, Pierre Assouline expresses himself through his words, through his letters which take him to the story he must tell people.

Launching of the book Le Paquebot

His latest book to be published in a few days, Le paquebot, takes the reader aboard the Georges Philippar, a brand new ship in 1932 which leaves Marseille to sail to Japan. He paints a gallery of characters on board troubled by the rise of Hitler in the early 1930s, which divides points of view and rocks Europe. Like a disturbing echo to the period we are going through. Victim of a fire, the Georges Philippar will end up sinking in the Gulf of Aden, taking with it the great reporter Albert Londres. And it is around this character who has become a symbol, a model of contemporary journalism that Pierre Assouline exchanged with the members of the Monaco Press Club.

The passion for journalism

We discover the passion for journalism, the stable and well-contoured enthusiasm for concretizing ideas and stories, the ideal of a journalism that has changed a lot over the years but which still remains anchored in a concrete and fluid reality. 

Author: Andra Oprea