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{{Short description|French television show}}

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| writer             = 
| director           = Pierre Dumayet
| presenter          = [[Pierre Dumayet]]<br>[[Max-Pol Fouchet]]<br>[[Pierre Desgraupes]]
| country            = France
| language           = French
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| camera             = [[Multiple-camera setup|Multi-camera]]
| runtime            = 22–24 minutes
| channel            = [[Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française|RTF]]
| first_aired        = {{Start date|1953|03|27}}
| last_aired         = {{End date|1968|05|08}}
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'''Lectures pour tous''' was the first French television show discussing Literature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/l-oeil-de-l-ina-lectures-pour-tous-la-premiere-emission-litteraire-20211106|title=L'Œil de l'INA : Lectures pour tous, la première émission littéraire|date=November 6, 2021|website=[[Le Figaro]]}}</ref> The show was created and presented by [[Pierre Dumayet]], it was broadcast from March 27, 1953 to May 8, 1968, on [[Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française|RTF]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.politis.fr/articles/2020/04/dumayet-ou-lart-de-lentretien-litteraire-41675/ | title=Dumayet ou l'art de l'entretien littéraire | date=8 April 2020 }}</ref>

==Premise==

The shows principle was to analyse and review literature on television.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=do0kDQAAQBAJ&dq=Lectures+pour+tous+Television+show&pg=PA96|title=Andre Bazin's New Media|first1=AndrŽ|last1=Bazin|first2=Dudley|last2=Andrew|date=October 3, 2014|publisher=[[Univ of California Press]]|isbn=9780520283565 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49N1DwAAQBAJ&dq=Lectures+pour+tous+Television+show&pg=PA210|title=Dealing with Authorship: Authors between Texts, Editors and Public Discourses|first1=Sarah|last1=Burnautzki|first2=Frederik|last2=Kiparski|first3=Raphaël|last3=Thierry|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781527520738 |via=Google Books}}</ref> Authors of books were interviewed and discussed, the show was designed to entertain and educate the french viewing public.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2011/11/17/pionnier-de-la-television-pierre-dumayet-est-mort_1605549_3236.html|title=Pionnier de la télévision, Pierre Dumayet est mort|date=November 17, 2011|via=[[Le Monde]]}}</ref> People of all backgrounds were invited to discuss literature on the show.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.estrepublicain.fr/actualite/2011/11/18/inventeur-de-la-television|title=Décès - " Lecture pour tous ", c'est lui. " Cinq colonnes à la Une " aussi. Pierre Dumayet est mort hier. Inventeur de la télévision|website=[[L'Est Républicain]]}}</ref>

==Reception==

The show was critically acclaimed for elevating the quality of television on French television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1957/07/31/lectures-pour-tous_2318902_1819218.html|title=LECTURES POUR TOUS|date=July 31, 1957|via=Le Monde}}</ref> According to ''[[Le Monde]]'' in 1962 Lectures pour tous had between 26% and 32% of the French viewing public.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5xi_WQwIewC&dq=Lectures+pour+tous+Television+show&pg=PA54|title=Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television|first=Tamara|last=Chaplin|date=December 12, 2007|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|isbn=9780226509914 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1950s French television series]]
[[Category:1960s French television series]]
[[Category:French-language television shows]]
[[Category:Lecture series]]


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