Conférence : Bernard Palissy, un savant trop méconnu

Organized by the Université du Temps Libre du Pays Villeréalais, this lecture will be presented by Alain Sarrieau, university professor and member of the Académie des Sciences, Literature and Arts of Agen.

Everyone knows Bernard Palissy—or thinks they do. Many see him as nothing more than a stubborn potter firing his pieces in his kiln in an attempt to create enameled dishes as beautiful as those being made by the Italians at the time. Behind the simplistic image he himself helped to create lies a far more complex and fascinating personality. Bernard Palissy left us a considerable body of work in which his erudition is evidentEAnd on a grand scale, as he reveals himself to be a connoisseur of geology and a pioneering evolutionist, with ideas that were revolutionary for his time...

This lecture will allow you to discover these all-too-little-known aspects of Palissy’s life.