+33 1 47 05 45 42
Please enter your surname
Please enter a valid email address
Please fill in your message
Please confirm the captcha

All personal information provided using this form will be used by our company and our service providers to handle your request. By using this form you accept our policy concerning the confidentiality of personal data. In compliance with the modified French Law no. 78-17 dated 6 January 1978, and with the general regulations for data protection, you have the right of access, of rectification, of deletion, of opposition and of limitation concerning the treatment of any of your personal data, as well as the right of transfer of such data and of defining your wishes concerning the management of your personal data after your death.  You can exercise these rights by sending an email to labourdonnais@inwood-hotels.com. To find out more, consult the legal notices.

Monsieur Inwood

Amelie Nothomb

18.09.16

Amelie Nothomb

Discovery of an author,

Dear Readers,

As I often explained you, I am a passionate of literature. I haven’t got a favourite kind of reading. It depends of the author, his style, his capacity to captivate the reader. I love to discover new authors. Sometimes, with my friends, we settle in a Parisian terrace and we debate about our favourite authors during hours!

A literary tour

Earlier today, I left to join my friends in the neighbourhood of Ecole Militaire in Paris. Rocked by the wind and observing the leaves falling, I saw the autumn coming. My friends and I began a debate about a topic that we all love: our favourite authors. One of my friends started to talk to us about a Belgian author that he has discovered a short time ago: Amélie Nothomb. He talked to us about her books, staying blurred about the topic to give us the envy to read. However, he offered me a promising foretaste evocating few romans whose the story took place in Japan. I wondered so: What better than a book to offer me the occasion to travel? At the end of the afternoon, leaving my friends, I directed myself to a library to buy a book of Amelie Nothomb. After this purchase, I decided to go reading in the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars. Settle on a bench, time passed without I could notice anything. I devoured the book. Pages increases in speed whereas I was absorbed by the story. When I close the book, I raised my head, I realized that the light of the day weakened. I haven’t seen the time passed: Amelie Nothomb made me travel. Few minutes ago, I was in Japan with the hero, observing her life, her story. And now, I was back in Paris, in the Jardins du Champ-de-Mars, observing the arrival of the autumn.

Happy about this discovery, I came back to the hotel La Bourdonnais. Arriving in my room, I turned on TV. What wasn’t my surprise when I saw on a programme called “Parfums d’enfance”: Amélie Nothomb interviewed, in the hotel where I was! I listened to the woman and I discovered her. Amazed by so much reflexion, she left me thoughtful when she told: “The characteristic of books is that each reader is the author”.

See you soon!

Back to Archives