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Édouard Grégoire: lighting the fires

2023-05-01T15:56:51.963Z


PORTRAIT - He designed the last New Year's fireworks display in Paris, and regularly represents France in international competitions. A know-how that he defends with passion.


For him, emotions have colors.

The voice of Maria Callas, for example, resonates in golden tones.

It is this innate talent, combined with a lot of hard work, that allowed this forty-year-old, with a frank gaze, to become a first-rate pyrotechnician.

With Arteventia, the company he co-founded, he creates nearly 150 pyrotechnic shows each year, in France and abroad.

A know-how inherited from a long tradition, which he nevertheless learned by himself, and late in life.

His first contact with gunpowder came from his grandmother when he was still a child.

This one buys her grandson fireworks for July 14, in a shop of pranks and tricks.

“I put lights and sound in my parents' garden, and I did my little staging.

It was going well, in general… At least, I never set fire!

From his childhood in Domont, north of Paris, he also remembers his apprenticeship in music:

“My brother…

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Source: lefigaro

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