The Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, located in the French commune of Cerisy-la-Salle (in the Manche département, region of Normandy), hosts the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle (CCIC), a prestigious venue for intellectual and scholarly encounters founded in 1952 by Anne Heurgon-Desjardins.Naughton, Helen T., and Jean-Pierre Cap. “Décades à Cerisy-La-Salle: 1972, 1973.” L’Esprit Créateur 14, no. 2 (1974): 177–81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26279760.Cerisy: un château, une aventure culturelle : catalogue de l'exposition organisée par les Archives départementales de la Manche du 24 juin au 31 août 2002. France: Archives départementales de la Manche, 2002. . The center is the home of the famous Colloques de Cerisy ("Cerisy Conferences"), a series of seminars which constitute an important reference in the recent history of French intellectual life. The expression "Colloque de Cerisy" also refers to the proceedings of these seminars, which are available from various publishers.

History It all started with Paul Desjardins and the "Pontigny Decades" at Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy, from 1910-1939.STEEL, DAVID. “Écrivains et Intellectuels Britanniques à Pontigny 1910-1939.” Bulletin Des Amis d’André Gide 25, no. 116 (1997): 367–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44812972. He gathered prominent figures there to discuss artistic, literary, philosophical, political, and social themes.CHAUBET, FRANÇOIS. “Le Décades de Pontigny et La N. R. F.” Bulletin Des Amis d’André Gide 25, no. 116 (1997): 351–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44812971. In the interwar period, Desjardins and his daughter, Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, sold Pontigny Abbey in order to restore the damaged Château de Cerisy la Salle. The Cerisy Cultural Center, supported by the Association , was born in 1952. In 1972, the Association des Amis Pontigny-Cerisy became a public benefit organization with approximately 1200 members, a board of twenty directors, and an honorary committee composed of prominent intellectual figures.

Colloquia The are organized annually in the month of July. Since 1952, nearly 1,000 symposia and 700 publications have been organised in Cerisy, dealing with various fields of the social sciences, medicine, and the arts.

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Further reading AUTRAND, Michel. “La Dramaturgie Claudélienne Au Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-La-Salle.” Bulletin de La Société Paul Claudel, no. 108 (1987): 30–32.

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