Poitiers

Joining Lenny Cypel, General Manager at Saft's Poitiers site and Bertrand de la Noue, Saft Chief Financial Officer, were the guests of honor: Alain Claeys, President of Grand Poitiers and Poitiers' Mayor; Bernard Uthurry, Vice-President in charge of economic development of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and Cecile Geneste, Chef de Cabinet at the Prefecture de la Vienne.

A letter preserved as a local church treasure (says his 6th-century successor Venantius Fortunatus) to their thirteen-year-old daughter Abra so successfully drew her from earthly things to God's that she devoted her short life (342-360) to good works around Poitiers (Church Memorial: December 6).

In the provincial city of Poitiers, however, a bourgeois salon run by a mother-daughter pair, Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches, produced an anthology of poems and prose by various hands that was published for the first time in Paris in 1582, again in 1583, and a third time in 1610, this time in the collected early works of one of its contributors, the humanist lawyer Etienne Pasquier.