Last published work by Christian Laborde: “Les Grimpeurs du Tour de France” (Éditions du Rocher, 2022, 208 p., €20).
I am against bullfighting because I was a little Catholic boy.
At the church of Aureilhan, in the 65, the priest, quoting the words of Christ, invited us to
"love one another"
, and warned us: "
What you will do to the smallest of mine, you will do it to me.
I always thought that animals were among the “smallest of his own” because all of them are defenseless, even elephants.
No offense to the aficionados who release an ole with each hiccup, no offense to the bullfighters, matassins in butcher's aprons, the bull is also defenseless: the arena into which it is pushed is always a tomb. .
Arenas are very noisy cemeteries.
The animals - I like to use this word used by the peasants and Colette - are among us, defenseless, and we make them suffer.
Sitting on a horse that would rather...
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