10December2026
Cancelled – Lecture by Marine Jacquemin: ‘The Fate of a War Correspondent’
The Thursday 10 December at 18 a.m00
Salle des fêtes 8 bis Avenue Charles de Gaulle 14800 TOUQUES
Here is a woman we’ve watched on our television screens, thinking to ourselves: “She’s got guts.” Her face, her familiar voice, her reports from war zones (Afghanistan, the Gulf, Chechnya, Rwanda…), and her unique style have left a lasting impression on us. Today, she takes us behind the scenes of a world as fascinating as it is ruthless, in which she has managed to carve out a place for herself.
With a deep-seated love for the profession of international correspondent, she has endured the misogyny and stereotypes she was saddled with, but she has stood firm in the name of an ideal: to give a voice to the women and men who are victims of the horrors of war.
Nor does this account shy away from her personal struggles: endometriosis, cancer and harassment. Though she was never able to become a mother, she also moved mountains to build, twenty years ago, a children’s hospital in Kabul, in an Afghanistan occupied by the Taliban. It still stands today.
It is this journey of a modern adventuress that Marine Jacquemin recounts for us. This talk is both a deeply moving personal account and the introspection of a woman in a man’s world, determined to fulfil herself as a journalist, a friend and a lover.
As part of the City of Touques’ lecture series, under the patronage of Vladimir Fédorovski.
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