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Gérard Delozier, Martine Gasnier, Jacki Leclancher et Bernard Caussadefour local authors or those who have lived in Argentan, in Orne, present their latest works, in different locations at the end of September or the beginning of October 2024.

Gérard Delozier at the E.Leclerc cultural space in Argentan Saturday September 28

Gérard Delozier will sign So André, still in uniform! this Saturday, September 28, at theE.Leclerc d’Argentan cultural space.

This retiree, former college principal in Argentan, previously taught history and geography. “I was left with a taste for the transmission of knowledge, for the feeling of past times and spaces,” he emphasizes.

« L’evocation of the near pastthat of twentieth centuryseems necessary to me because there are many overwhelmed families by the empire and multitude of media which absorb the attention of young people and compete with the words of elders.

It is therefore very difficult for a young person today to imagine the environment in which their parents and grandparents evolved; a world with limited horizons, rare uncomfortable and dangerous journeys, a world almost without telephones, the blurry black and white image of the TV, the total absence of internet, media and social networks…

This is why I located the center of my stories at the heart of family life, in the twentieth century, in Normandy. Some readers, parents, grandparents will recognize themselves in it, others will discover, for example, elements of life in a rural gendarmerie barracks. »

“Going down the Montmerrei hill… the hood unlocks”

In this extract, the big moto BMW recalcitrant is abandoned in favor of a 2 CV.

“The diva had to give way to the maid.

Modest, unadorned but youthful, singing, devoted and almost faithful. A girl from our area. Brand new and with an electric starter, still valiant…

Progress and true happiness intertwined, according to popular twentieth-century standards. The sluggish but less capricious 2 CV Citroën therefore took over but one day, it played a trick on them in its own way. So, going down the coast of Montmerreithat is to say when it has reached 120 km per hour, its absolute record, the hood unlocks, rises and pushed by the wind, comes flattened on the suddenly obscured windshield. Panic on board!…”

Gérard Delozier specifies that “my heroes, modest representatives of the French people, from the country of Argentan, go through the upheaval of cruel times, full of pitfalls and reveal their family intimacy. With them, let us share their concerns, their worries but also their joys and their happiness at having lived through a wonderful time.”

Martine Gasnier on September 28 in Argentan

The Norman novelist Martine Gasnier will meet the public on Saturday September 28 to the La Curieuse bookstore d’Argentan from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (after that of Vimoutiers from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) on the occasion of the publication of its 8^e roman A Rital at the minepublished by Zinédi (of Fences).

She lives in Ornethe department from which she comes. “ Doctor in legal historyet passionate about artshe pursued her professional career in the world of Culture. Today, this passionate about history, justice and social issues, so many themes which punctuate all of her work, devotes herself entirely to writing.

Italians victims of xenophobia

In this new novel, “ the Great War has just ended and the country, bloodless, must rebuild itself. Massacred during the conflict, the men are sorely lacking.

To overcome this situation, politicians and industrialists will resolve to open borders more widely to foreigners. Among them, the Italiansrushing from the peninsula to escape poverty. Hired in large numbers on the mining sitesthey will contribute to the recovery of France where many will make roots.

If, today, these transalpine cousins ​​are part of the nation, it was not always this way. A wind of xenophobia blew against them. The derogatory terms rital or macaroni were attributed to them, accompanied by a reputation as unrepentant seducers.

When Emilio, the hero of the novel, arrives at the iron mine of Soumont-Potigny, in the Calvadoshe knows nothing of what he will experience. In a microcosm, a true reflection of society, ihe will discover friendship, solidarity but also jealousy and fascist hatred rising illustrated by a bistro owner and his gang”.

The work also appears in large print for the visually impaired in co-publication with the brand new Ornaise publishing house Anépigraphe.

The first novel by Martine Gasnier, The Julie Clain Affair (2018), prefaced by Henri Leclerc, received the 2020 Literature Prize from the Lions clubs of Normandy.

Jacki Leclancher at La Roche d’Oëtre Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29

Jacki Leclancher will be present at La Roche d’Oëtre book fairhas Saint-Philbert-sur-OrneTHE Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29to present his new novel, Gabrielle L., the panty maker (published by NomBre7 editions, distribution by Hachette-Livres).

This resident of Putanges-le-Lac, retired, was “ teacher, college professorprofessor-trainer at the IUFM, then at the ESPE of the University of Caen”.

Ce member of the Association of Writers in Normandy Switzerlandis also the author of One thing leads to another et Lives sewn with white thread.

“All my novels take place in Normandy. » In the latest one, Gabrielle, culottière, trained in Le Havremanufactured uniforms for soldiers during the First World War. “Surrounded by her friends and family, she went through the interwar period as a single woman, enjoying waltzes, concerts, operas and travel, despite the trials and shocks that upset her. »

Refugee in Mortagne-au-Perche during the Second Warnostalgic for Le Havre, she nevertheless finds a new meaning in her life.

Bernard Caussade on October 5 in Argentan

Bernard Caussade returns with a 5^e work, Transhumances / Picturesque portraits and stories which he will dedicate at the Mille et Une Histoires d’Argentan bookstore, on Saturday October 5.

The former elected representative of Argentan, originally from the Basque Countrylives today in La Manche. He “kept many contacts and friends in Argentan, particularly within the municipality”.

In Transhumanceshe mentions in particular François Doubin (Editor’s note: former mayor of Argentan who was Minister of Commerce and Crafts), the Sauvé report (on the child crime in the Church) “and my relations with the church and its excesses” (he had already spoken on these two subjects in 2022 at the Journal de l’Orne by coming to talk about his two books Raven’s claws et Friends of Bacchus).

He still recounts his “ journeys across FranceNormandy and the Basque Country which I left 50 years ago.

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