The Vercors, for Antoine de Baecque, is the memory of the hikes he practiced as a teenager, under the cliffs of Grand Veymont, and of which he found the journals after the death of his father.
A place where he returns today, four decades later, to tread the paths, stumble over his memories, pick up and keep leaves, flowers or pebbles slipped into the shoe; so many moments that he savors and shares, as a passionate lover of walking.
This natural fortress is also a refuge, where one crosses the great History, that of paths taken by many maquisards during the Second World War and caves where sheltered the figures of the Resistance in France.
True natural fortress, overhanging the valley of the Rhone, it offers an unforgettable landscape in which the author proposes to the reader to live moments shared, revisited moments.
13 x 21 cm – 292 pages – €19.90 – Publication on April 14 by Editions Paulsen
Born in 1962, Antoine de Baecque is a French historian, film and theater critic, and publisher. He was the editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1996 to 1998, then of the culture pages of the newspaper “Liberation” from 2001 to 2006. Author of numerous books, essays, scripts and stories, he now teaches at the École Normale Superior while devoting himself to writing.