Florence Mothe, holder of press card 25477, has been closely involved, for professional, friendly, family and emotional reasons, in the major political and financial affairs that have shaken France over the last half-century. In the autumn of her life and on the eve of the 2nd volume of her memoirs, the author, who in 1990 gave up cultural columns for investigative journalism, will recount for the first time from September 29 to December 22, in a series of 13 conferences, given each Sunday at the Château de Mongenan, the part she played in the great scandals that shook the Republic and that finally convinced her that, in the end, it?s better to cultivate one?s own garden