Madeleine Lioux was born into music.
An outstanding path takes her at fourteen from the Toulouse conservatoire to the class of Marguerite Long at the Paris conservatoire, but it will be nourished by the great moments of the 20th century's history.
It is also the very touching journey of a woman attentive to her children wounded by the war, which says a great deal about the energy, courage and talent required to make a career as a professional musician for a woman, and not only as the wife of someone.
An exhibition based on the book of the same name by Céline Malraux, enriched with period documents. The book, reissued in autumn 2026 by Larousse, will be presented by Céline Malraux and Manon Landowski on Thursday 3 December at the André Malraux library.
Event labelled Cinquantenaire André Malraux by the Ministry of Culture and included in the Monte le son 2026 programme of the Paris City libraries.