The Brive School

The Brive Book Fair also draws its impetus from a literary movement made up largely of writers with close links to Corrèze and Brive-la-Gaillarde... the Ecole de Brive!

At the origin of the Ecole de Brive

Claude Michelet is associated with the history of the Foire du livre, and in the late 1970s he published Des grives aux loups, the first in a series of books set in the countryside around Brive*.

A number of authors came together around this realistic, rural-based writing about the world of the countryside. They became a literary movement known as the Ecole de Brive.

*Ifyou would like to follow in the footsteps of the Vialhe family, we invite you to come and see us at the Tourist Office so that we can tell you where to go.

Member writers

The Ecole de Brive brought together Gilbert Bordes, Colette Laussac, Claude Michelet, Martine Marie Muller, Jacques Peuchmaurd, Michel Peyramaure, Yves Portier-Réthoré, Jean-Guy Soumy, Denis Tillinac and Yves Viollier.

For a variety of reasons, including duck conflicts and bitter words, this movement disappeared and four writers from this first group (Gilbert Bordes, Claude Michelet, Jean-Guy Soumy and Yves Viollier) founded the Nouvelle Ecole de Brive, which opened up the horizons of their stories to more open and exotic destinations.