Speaker: David Labreure, Doctor of Modern Letters, Director of the museum and archive center "La Maison d'Auguste Comte".

Louis-Ferdinand Céline linked his life and work to Paris and its suburbs. His life as a writer, of course, but also his work as a doctor, a profession he sometimes adored and sometimes loathed ("medicine, that piece of shit", he wrote in Mort à crédit), but never disowned. Born in Courbevoie, France, and dying in Meudon, France, Céline lived in the suburbs from his youth until the twilight of his life. But medicine also took him around the world, where he came face to face with the misery of the suburbs and with hygienism, before he became the famous writer we know best for Voyage au bout de la nuit. The story of this man, whose destiny, views and work are still the subject of much debate, is full of all kinds of adventures...