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EAN : 9782258199934
Shaping : RELIE-ALB.
Pages : 200
Size : 150 x 210 mm
The Farm of Montaquoy

Collection : La Cité graphique
Release date : 25/08/2022
«This album of images, drawings, photos and memories, not all mine, is the story of Ernest, Madeleine and Valentine. From three generations of farmers. From a family. From their work and their lives.»
Nothing predisposed Régis, a city dweller famous for his comic strips and his Café de la Plage series, to succumb to the charm of the countryside. But nobody was counting on his meeting with Valentine, artist and costume designer for the seventh art, heiress of a farm in the heart... Nothing predisposed Régis, a city dweller famous for his comic strips and his Café de la Plage series, to succumb to the charm of the countryside. But nobody was counting on his meeting with Valentine, artist and costume designer for the seventh art, heiress of a farm in the heart of the Gâtinais, in her family for more than three generations. The Ferme de Montaquoy, on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest, was first acquired by a bankrupt winegrower who, after having made a name for himself in the automobile industry, decided to return to the land. A sharp-nosed businessman, Ernest managed to transform the estate into a modern and flourishing enterprise. But by the time his daughter Madeleine took over, times had changed. It was a time of intensive production, mechanisation and rural flight, and the farm gradually lost its splendour... until his great-niece, Valentine, comes to wake up the sleeping beauty at the dawn of the 21st century.

Resolutely embracing ecological transition and conversion agriculture by reviving the stone mill, Valentine resurrects the old building and its tools, reinventing the family heritage. A story of family and transmission.
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EAN : 9782258199934
Shaping : RELIE-ALB.
Pages : 200
Size : 150 x 210 mm
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