Traveler, adventurer, thinker, poet... So many qualifiers for Sylvain Tesson, the literary globe trotter.
The author of Les
Fées
(Ed. des Équateurs) was the exceptional guest of “Figaro La Nuit”, Thibaut Gauthier's weekly nocturnal stroll.
After visiting the Saint-Louis chapel in Pitié-Salpêtrière where he rebuilt himself after his accident and before a late evening in a cigar smokehouse, Sylvain Tesson gave a climbing course on the banks of the Seine in front of Notre -Lady.
“
I’m going to show you something that’s relatively little known
,” he says, taking us in the middle of the night to one of his childhood memories.
“
I come for a walk almost every day to ask for a little air from the Seine.
“Thirty-five years ago I had a guide called
“the climbing sites of France” (...)
Here on the quays of la Tournelle, which is one of the most beautiful places in Paris with the Marie Bridge, the Saint-Louis Island, the breakthrough of the Seine, there was this identified base which was authorized.
There are holds.
» Sylvain Tesson, caught in a controversy at the Spring of Poets, sets out to climb.
“
It’s very educational, the millstone is small holds, we had horn
,” explains the man who knew how to “climb” many other peaks.