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 tion: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Washington St.\nAudience: Anyone may attend\nT
 ags: Museums\, Old & Historic Alexandria\, Old Town\, Sister Cities\n\nWe
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 ar/Detail.aspx?si=63261</a><br />\n<br />A meeting of the Alexandria-Caen
  Sister City Committee. \n<br />\n<br />Location: Lloyd House\, 220 N. Wa
 shington St.\n<br />Audience: Anyone may attend\n<br />Tags: Museums\, Ol
 d &amp\; Historic Alexandria\, Old Town\, Sister Cities<br>\n<a href="htt
 ps://www.alexandriava.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/ACSCCAgenda20260810
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CATEGORIES:Book Discussion Group
CATEGORIES:Museums
CATEGORIES:Old & Historic Alexandria
CATEGORIES:Old Town
CATEGORIES:Sister Cities
DESCRIPTION:Imported on Jul 28\, 2026\, 24 days before the event.\nTo veri
 fy info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=
 63323\n\nJoin the Alexandria-Caen Sister City Committee and Old Town Book
 s in celebrating French authors and literature! \n\nThis special collabor
 ation event is free and open to the public\, but space is limited so plea
 se register in advance at Alexandriava.gov/Shop. This event is designed t
 o encourage the exploration of non-Anglophone authors and books\, especia
 lly those in the French diaspora.  While buying the book at Old Town Book
 s is not required to attend\, doing so helps keep their free literary pro
 gramming sustainable! By attending an Old Town Books event\, you are agre
 eing to their code of conduct.  \n\nAbout the book:  The Most Secret Memo
 ry of Men holds the distinction of being the 2021 winner of the Prix Gonc
 ourt\, France's top literary award. Written by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr\, the
  Goncourt's first Sub-Saharan African winner\, and translated by Lara Ver
 gnaud\, in this coming-of-age novel\, Di?gane Latyr Faye\, a young Senega
 lese writer in Paris\, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s\, The La
 byrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author\, once hail
 ed as the "Black Rimbaud\," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled b
 y this mystery\, Di?gane decides to search for T.C. Elimane\, going down 
 a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history\, f
 rom colonialism to the Holocaust. The Most Secret Memory of Men is an ast
 onishing novel about the choice between living and writing\, and the desi
 re to transcend the divide between Africa and the West. Above all\, it is
  an ode to literature and its timelessness.\n\nLocation: Lloyd House\, 22
 0 N. Washington St.\nTags: Book Discussion Group\, Museums\, Old & Histor
 ic Alexandria\, Old Town\, Sister Cities\n\nWeb resources:\n\nFree Event 
 Registration Online Here\nhttps://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n
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SUMMARY:French Book Club
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Imported on Jul 28\, 2026\, 24 days before th
 e event.<br />To verify info please see <a href="https://apps.alexandriav
 a.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=63323">https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calend
 ar/Detail.aspx?si=63323</a><br />\n<br />Join the Alexandria-Caen Sister 
 City Committee and Old Town Books in celebrating French authors and liter
 ature! \n<br />\n<br />This special collaboration event is free and open 
 to the public\, but space is limited so please register in advance at Ale
 xandriava.gov/Shop. This event is designed to encourage the exploration o
 f non-Anglophone authors and books\, especially those in the French diasp
 ora.  While buying the book at Old Town Books is not required to attend\,
  doing so helps keep their free literary programming sustainable! By atte
 nding an Old Town Books event\, you are agreeing to their code of conduct
 .  \n<br />\n<br />About the book:  The Most Secret Memory of Men holds t
 he distinction of being the 2021 winner of the Prix Goncourt\, France?s t
 op literary award. Written by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr\, the Goncourt?s first
  Sub-Saharan African winner\, and translated by Lara Vergnaud\, in this c
 oming-of-age novel\, Di&#233\;gane Latyr Faye\, a young Senegalese writer
  in Paris\, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s\, The Labyrinth of 
 Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author\, once hailed as the ?
 Black Rimbaud\,? after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this myst
 ery\, Di&#233\;gane decides to search for T.C. Elimane\, going down a pat
 h that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history\, from c
 olonialism to the Holocaust. The Most Secret Memory of Men is an astonish
 ing novel about the choice between living and writing\, and the desire to
  transcend the divide between Africa and the West. Above all\, it is an o
 de to literature and its timelessness.\n<br />\n<br />Location: Lloyd Hou
 se\, 220 N. Washington St.\n<br />Tags: Book Discussion Group\, Museums\,
  Old &amp\; Historic Alexandria\, Old Town\, Sister Cities<br>\n<a href="
 https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx">Free Event Registration Online
  Here</a><br>\n
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