Régis Sénécal

Regis Sénécal

Régis Sénécal, actor and director, directed a nationally accredited song venue near Rouen for twenty-four years. A playwright, he also wrote and co-wrote books on local history. He hosted numerous writers in the literary cafés he programmed. During Perestroika, he became interested in rock music and Russian painting, around which he created several events. The author also worked on numerous exchanges around the French-speaking world with Quebec and West Africa. He is a member of the Académie Charles Cros. Régis Sénécal was 21 years old when he made his first trip to Portugal in July 1974, a few months after the Captains' Putsch. He went there a second time in April 1975, then a third in July of the same year. He remains impressed to this day by this revolutionary process, which seems to him as important as the Paris Commune. Régis Sénécal published his first novel in 2021: L'Antre du Serpent, in the Ici et d'Ailleurs collection published by Douro.

Portugal 1974/1975, a Revolução dos Cravos. As páginas manuscritas que Maria me confiou em 1998 narram sucintamente uma série de episódios de sua vida, desde o seu nascimento em 1925 até o início dos anos 2000. 

Portugal 1974/1975, the Carnation Revolution. The pages Maria entrusted to me in 1998 succinctly narrate a series of episodes in her life, from her birth in 1925 to the dawn of the 2000s. Strangely, she says very little about the period during the Carnation Revolution, yet she returned to Portugal between August 1974 and November 1975. And what she recounts reveals an extraordinary moment in her life. The snippets of information distilled testify to her being thrown into the revolutionary maelstrom alongside a childhood friend, the political leader and anti-fascist hero Manuel Serra. She will intimately share its political twists and turns. In this astonishing interlude, Maria Portugal, whose character oscillates between real events and imaginary moments, becomes the heroine of this novel. She will experience what was the last insurrectional movement in Europe, where a people tried to take their destiny into their own hands and imagine another form of society. What if the path outlined by the Carnation Revolution was the one that European nations could have taken? The Portuguese people, waking up after half a century of dictatorship, tried to show us another possible path. "I Wanted to Kill Mário Soares" is a fiction that reveals unusual aspects of the post-April 25, 1974 period. 2024 will mark its fiftieth anniversary. Publication date: October 1, 2023 Order


Paul, an average European, has taken a sabbatical during which he decides to undertake a trip to a West African country. He has no objective, except to escape a certain apathy. A chance encounter will give him a purpose and lead him to search for the origins of a people. His journey, in the company of the enigmatic Yekpa, will take us, in a clash of cultures, to the confines of human understanding. A story where experience meets imagination, The Serpent's Lair is an ethnographic adventure novel between myth and reality. Publication date: November 1, 2021 Order