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Discover Indurain and the Hautacam bears, the unpublished short story by Christian Laborde

2022-07-01T05:21:27.185Z


EXCLUSIVE - Each week, Le Figaro Magazine publishes an unpublished novel by a writer. It's the turn of Christian Laborde


The Basques, the guys from Pamplona, ​​the dark-haired girls, with the ikurriña on their T-shirts and their breasts underneath, crossed the border before nightfall.

All are there for Miguel Indurain.

U.S. too.

Us, it's me and those of Adour, Aureilhan, Orleix, Ossun.

And from Tarbes, where Yvette Horner was born, the breathtaking

“Vévette Underground”

who accompanied, with her Cavagnolo, Louison Bobet climbing the Galibier, or Boy George singing

Summertime

.

His parents lived behind us.

She visited them.

The cows dropped dung in the streets, Yvette crushed them with the whitewall tires of her Cadillac.

Yvette: all year round, we listen to Angèle or Orelsan, but as soon as we set up the camping table in the pass, we whistle

The March of the Miners

by Yvette Horner.

Tour day is Yvette's day.

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The day, here it is, it rises.

On each side of the cambered Hautacam road, cars, camper vans.

There is no longer a place, and the Basques no longer have paint...

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Source: lefigaro

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