Sailors, explorers, oceanographers or offshore racers, they have left their mark on the history of the French with the sea. Portraits of pioneer figures of the oceans.
It was a wave that was both pagan and sacred, a baptism in the worship of the ocean and nature. From her first weeks, Anita Conti was marked. She is just an infant when her father plunges her into the sea, off Lorient. However, the fashion for "baby swimmers" did not appear but Leon Caracotchian, a doctor of Armenian origin, is committed to hygienic theories. A bit whimsical, he cultivates the art of healing in harmony with strengths and natural resources.
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Water, salt, iodine, the little girl is strangely assigned a fate. Born under the wise trees of Ermont-sur-Oise on May 17, 1899, Anita Conti went to seek only waves and spray. The one who will be called the “Lady of the Sea” had found the meaning of her life. And what fascinates is his loyalty to the same universe while approaching it from
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