Round table: Via francigena, Via ligeria: the great road to Rome at the dawn of the Jubilee

Via francigena, Via ligeria: the great road to Rome on the eve of the Jubilee

As part of the 7th “Des chemins et des hommes” cycle, round-table discussion (with photo projection) moderated by Gaële de La Brosse, journalist with the weekly Le Pèlerin.

A thousand-year-old path linking Canterbury (England) to Rome, the Via Francigena has been enjoying a marked revival over the last ten years. Cyprien Mycinski and Clara Gaymard walked the Italian section, while Anthony Grouard and Anne-Laure Timmel set off from Nantes, tracing the Via ligeria.

Great pilgrimage ideas for the Rome Jubilee of 2025!

• Clara Gaymard, entrepreneur, is co-founder of RAISE and the Mouvement pour une économie bienveillante. She is the author of Life is happiness. Jérôme Lejeune, my father (Fleurus, 2003); Faut qu’on parle (Plon, 2016), and Ma francigena (L’éditeur à part, 2024).
• Anthony Grouard and Anne-Laure Timmel are the founders of Haltes pèlerines en Loire-Atlantique&Via ligeria, and organize the annual Forum nantais des chemins. They are the authors of Dans les pas de saint Philbert (Librairie Siloë, Nantes, 2023), Dans les pas de saint Donatien et saint Rogatien (Librairie Siloë, Nantes, 2024) and De Nantes à Rome par la Via ligeria et la Via francigena (Salvator, 2025).
• Cyprien Mycinski is a history-geography teacher and journalist. He is the author of Via Francigena. Crossing Italy on foot (Salvator, 2017), A narrow land. Notebooks from Israel and Palestine (Salvator, 2019) and Paris, sacred ground. A spiritual history of the capital (PUF, 2022).

At the end of the round table:

• A glass of friendship
• Authors’ signing session
• Organizers’ stands

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