This is the key word of this festival: a word that rolls around in the mouth and sounds like the bell of departures; a word that feels good in these confined and distant times. Bourlinguer: like a magic formula, like an antidote to withdrawal, like the programme for four days full of excitement!

Since 2005, La Charité-sur-Loire has rhymed with Festival. The fourteen editions of the Festival du Mot have written the first pages of a beautiful history and contributed to animate and make known the city, to inscribe the words in its genes and on its walls. Renamed in 2019, the festival continues to celebrate the word, in all its forms.

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