Festival jazz in saint-germain-des-prés concerts from May the 10th to 25th 2009

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Conference “ Paris – New Orleans : the creole world or the story of a difference “ inspired by Paul Nevski’s book “ Passée blanche de Louisiane, Caprice Dorval Penington, 1861-1961 “.

Discover the lives and times of Caprice Dorval Penington and her family,between France and America, the remains of a sugar cane plantation lost in the Bayous, the controversial world of the slave-owning black elite… Paul Nevski, a fascinating French-American writer and lecturer brings back to life the genealogical history of a creole dynasty in Louisiana.

Saturday 16 May
17h00
Petit Odéon (Théâtre de l’Odéon)
Fees : 5€