A story that crosses the intimate history and the history of the Maquis du Vercors
My fortress, Antoine De Baecque. Journal of the Vercors
Editor Paulsen’s point of view
Historian, film critic, and above all a great walker, Antoine de Baecque crossed the Vercors to tell about a region that touches his heart. Imbued with childhood memories, it is marked by historical highlights and so beautiful.
The Vercors, for Antoine de Baecque, is the memory of the hikes of youth, under the cliffs of Grand Veymont, of which he found, moved, the newspapers on 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, on the verge of old age, as a passionate lover of walking. This natural fortress is also a refuge, where one crosses the great History, that of the arduous paths taken by the maquisards and the caves where the figures of all the resistances sheltered.
By alternating intimate chronicle, history and travel diary, the words of the walking author easily return to the past, to confront his presence in situ, revealing disturbing and bewitching fictional scenes.
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