In 1847, the young Flaubert and his friend Maxime Du Camp toured Brittany.
They will draw from it a story full of verve and digressions,
By the fields and by the shores
.
A little less than two centuries later, emerging from a long confinement, the journalist Thierry Dussard and his wife, Chantal, pure Breton, decide to follow in their footsteps.
The journey starts in Nantes:
“Quite stupid city”,
says Flaubert.
It begins well.
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"The memory is an old lady who can be heard walking above home,"
notes Dussard nicely, recalling a canvas stamped
Nantes
hanging at her grandmother's house.
Gust is staying at the Hôtel de France.
The narrator talks to him, bullies him, reproaches him for his caricatural vision of Anne of Brittany.
In front of the Jules Verne Museum, Chantal takes out her sketchbook.
Since the passage of the two accomplices, the
“old ruined chapel”
of Batz-sur-mer has lost its roof;
"Broken into three pieces",
the large menhir of Locmariaquer is
"today broken into four parts".
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