Michel Bernard: "Wind turbines make the sky ugly, essential for human breathing"

With his knowledge of the places and landscapes where the French fought during the First World War, the writer has notably published "La Tranchée de Calonne" (La Table Ronde, 2007, Erckmann-Chatrian prize), "Pour Genevoix" (La Table Ronde, 2011), “The Great War seen from the sky” (Perrin, 2014) and “Faces of Verdun” (Perrin, 2016).

Last published work: “Le Bon Sens” (La Table Ronde, 2020, Alexandre-Vialatte prize), which tells of the struggle of a few men, in the middle of the 15th century, to obtain the rehabilitation of Joan of Arc.

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"I start with the sky",

said Alfred Sisley about the composition of his paintings.

Rodin could have said it too, who had installed the plaster of his

five meters high, on a high platform in the park of his property in Meudon.

He wanted to show that the human forms modeled by his hands did not express their powerful harmony, the choreography of their silhouettes except against the moving background of the azure and the clouds.

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