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Frédéric Beigbeder: "A seaside mourning"

2020-06-12T08:41:05.280Z


CHRONICLE - After On the black paths where Sylvain Tesson criss-crossed France on foot, here is Le Bruit de la mer where Franck Maubert tours the beaches by car.


The borders being closed this summer with most of the exotic destinations, we will have to visit our own country. Franck Maubert's new story is timely. It is a guided tour of our shores in tribute to a missing friend (Pierre Le-Tan), whose beautiful drawing of a mermaid illustrates the cover strip. Maubert offers a French version of La Longue Route de sable where Pasolini rolled along the Italian coast in 1959, from Ventimiglia to Trieste, in a Fiat Millecento.

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The difference is that Maubert didn't end up murdered on a beach (at least for the moment). It therefore left from the northern sands in January to those of Cotentin in June, passing through Normandy and the Landes in February, the Isle of Yeu in March, the Basque Coast in April and Brittany in May. He does not say why he avoided the Mediterranean - because it is the reserved domain of Fitzgerald and Le Clézio?

His inventory begins at Bray-Dunes (where he drives drunk on beer) and ends on Île aux Faisans

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Source: lefigaro

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