She presents herself as the “shadow woman” in the incredible quest for the Golden Owl. Blanche Neige-Schmitt, bailiff in Argentat (Corrèze), now retired, was commissioned by Michel Becker to reset the game in 2020. With the sculptor, Blanche Neige was the only person to know the location of hide it. She even went there. After an enigmatic phone call, she agreed to tell the story.
“I won’t tell you anything. Even under torture.” At the end of the line, the voice of the owner of Clos du Chatel is smiling, but firm. It was in this large lodge, in Combressol, a small town in upper Corrèze, that the last “Chouet’teuf” took place, at the end of August, these paid gatherings of owls offered, almost everywhere in France, by Michel Becker, the last organizer of the legendary treasure hunt which would have ended on October 3. “Ah! To talk about the Chouet’teuf, no problem… For the rest, no!” The rest ? “I am also a bailiff in Argentat (Corrèze), now retired. I worked for Éditions de la chouette d’or. You are not the first to call me.”
