Drawing on his knowledge of the places and landscapes where the French fought during the First World War,
Michel Bernard
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).
He is also the author of "Bourgeois de Calais" (La Table Ronde, 2021).
By bus, between Nantes and the prosperous and lively little town of Vendée where I was going at the end of March, on a journey of about thirty kilometers, I did not see a single wind turbine.
Back in the Meuse, from the TGV station located under Verdun in Bar-le-Duc, the eyes grew tired of counting them along the Sacred Way, always more numerous, always higher.
Approaching the prefecture, "City of art and history", "Renaissance jewel", their swarming prevents them from being counted.
In the hamlet they dominate, to which they provide an income, sidewalks...
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