"It's incredible. Nobody knows where the Vendée is, where to locate it on the map of France. As for the Vendéen himself, he accepts himself, with resignation, in this infirmity of image which, in the eyes of the world, presents him as a sort of granite stupid that the sociology of experts generously classifies in the category with the evocative name of “Deep rural”
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That's what I hear every day in Paris ...
How to get out of this resignation?
How to change the image that France has of the Vendée and the image that the Vendée has of itself?
We must make the Vendeans dream, carry them above themselves, and show the world that the double heart
(symbol of the Vendée, Editor's note)
is a logo of conquest, openness, risk and modernity.
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We are in 1987. I have the chance, at this moment of my reflection, to find Philippe Jeantot, met for the first time during his victory at the Boc Challenge, in Rio, in 1983.
He offers me a race around the world solo and non-stop, the
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