François Sureau: «I feel a diminished desire for freedom».»

Enarque, freedom fighter, soldier, writer. François Sureau has lived a thousand lives. Elected to the Académie française in 2020, he is now immortal. We meet to discuss his book A year in the forest, which focuses on Blaise Cendrars, the Swiss touring writer.

Reserve colonel in the Foreign Legion command, writer published by Gallimard, founder, with his wife Ayyam Sureau, of the Pierre Claver association, which helps asylum seekers and refugees learn the French language, François Sureau seems unclassifiable. But his compasses are well known: the defense of civil liberties and literature. We talk to him about the forest, Blaise Cendrars, his links with Switzerland and, of course, freedom!