Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand

The Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand is a French literary award founded in 1998 by Herve Louboutin, Philippe de Saint Robert and Sonia de La Tour du Pin. It is handed out in memory of the writer François-René de Chateaubriand. The award ceremony takes place at the Château de Combourg in Ille-et-Vilaine, where Chateaubriand lived during a part of his youth.

Laureates

Controversy

The departmental council of Ille-et-Vilaine sponsors the award with 600 euro annually. When the prize went to Éric Zemmour in 2015, the local Socialist Party leader, Jean-Luc Chenut, protested against the jury's decision and blocked the transaction. Sonia de La Tour du Pin, co-founder of the prize, dismissed Chenut's reaction as "sectarian".[1][2]

gollark: I refuse.
gollark: This is using a "state monad", which is basically just what Haskell does because they wanted mutable variables but different somehow.
gollark: Less ironically, it's basically a purely functional way to, well, sequence actions which operate on state, sort of thing.
gollark: It's a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
gollark: Yes, that's right, I KNOW APPROXIMATELY HOW A STATE MONAD WORKS.

References
  1. Carnec, Nicolas (2015-10-13). "Éric Zemmour. Polémique autour de son prix Chateaubriand". Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 2015-12-03.
  2. Adrian, Pierre (2015-10-14). "En Bretagne, un prix littéraire pour Éric Zemmour dérange". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 2015-12-03.
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