The objective is to finance 1 million meals this year thanks to the sale of 250,000 copies.
As every year for the past nine years, the Restos du Coeur publish on November 3, in partnership with Éditions Pocket, a collection of unpublished short stories, all of the proceeds from which are donated to the association created in 1985 by Coluche. Title 13 at the table! and prefaced by astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the theme of the 2023 edition is “the planet and me» (the memories of holidays in 2022, the trip in 2022…). We find Esther on the cover, the iconic character of comic book author and director Riad Sattouf. (The Arabic of the future) who flies away with a book in space. Like every year, prestigious authors have written an original short story: Françoise Bourdin, Marina Carrère d’Encausse, Raphaëlle Giordano, Cyril Lignac, Agnès Martin-Lugand, François D’Epenoux, Romain Puértolas, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr…
An entirely voluntary project, all the teams mobilized aim to finance no less than 1 million meals this year thanks to the sale of 250,000 copies. Each book is marketed at the price of 5 euros. The edition of the first eight volumes of 13 at the table! has already made it possible to finance nearly 6.8 million meals by the Restos du Coeur which will launch, on November 22, their 38e winter food distribution campaign. During the previous edition, the charity organization with 70,000 volunteers distributed nearly 145 million meals and welcomed more than 1.2 million people in one of its 2,000 centers spread over the territory.