For Marie-Josée Le Gall, from the Pension Gloanec, in Pont-Aven, the book “Augustine” by Régis Delanoë, is “a fascinating book relating the life of Augustine but also rural life in Brittany and the evolution of this middle through a century”. A favorite that the bookseller wanted to share by inviting Régis Delanoë to Pension Gloanec this Saturday, December 28, 2024.
Born without running water, died in the age of the internet
The author will present his book “Augustine, un siècle de Bretagne”, published by Éditions du coin de la rue, in the form of a meeting, at 4 p.m. “Régis Delanoë will tell us the story of his grandmother Augustine,” explains Marie-Josée Le Gall. Died on April 23, 2018, the author left behind three notebooks in which she wrote her life, “marked by wars, the agricultural revolution, desertion from churches, female emancipation…”. Through these pages, we discover the unpublished memories of a peasant woman born in Brittany without running water or electricity and who died in the age of the internet. “Convinced by the richness of this testimony, Régis Delanoë followed in the footsteps of his grandmother.”
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Régis Delanoë is a journalist in Brittany, where he collaborates with the magazines Bretons and Bikini. He is also the author of several works including L’Échappée bretonne, published by Éditions du coin de la rue.
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