All year round, they provide information on village life. Today, they reveal their favorite recipe.
Hervé Guyonvarch is correspondent for The Independent in Douzens since 2020. An activity that he took up a little before the difficult Covid-19 episode. It therefore began with a great moment of solitude due to tight confinement to protect the population. This did not prevent him, the Douzenois at heart, from giving news from “his village”.
Very charismatic, ready to help anyone who asks him, he was able to carve out a place for himself within this community and its associations by actively participating in their activities. Always smiling, it was with great kindness that he opened the doors of his kitchen, to prepare one of these veal blanquettes of which he has a secret and with which he knows how to delight his many friends.
From the North to Occitania
Hervé Guyonvarch was born in Malo-les-Bains, the largest beach in the Nord department and a residential area of Dunkirk. At the time, his parents were fishmongers. It was at the age of 8 that he and his family moved to the Paris region where his parents had found work. An IT executive, he stayed there until 2013 after a two-year stay in Provence. It was by meeting his partner in 2007 that he got to know Aude and Douzens. They both came on vacation to her mother’s house. Finally, the couple decided to radically change their lives and came to live permanently in Aude and in their partner’s family home.
From IT to events
He had to reinvent his professional life, so he turned to events, becoming a professional photographer, DJ and evening host. But bitten by the IT bug, he nevertheless kept this skill, combining troubleshooting and IT support for his self-employed business. Now, Hervé has retired in this village in Occitania to which he is attached and it is with great interest that he tells it in our columns. When we ask him how he became a press correspondent, it is with a big smile that he answers: “Oh, a little by chance, through the village correspondent who told me about it. As I was doing a lot of work in the town, it seemed relevant to me. So I decided to give it a go.”
