“There are places where the spirit breathes,” wrote Maurice Barrès in “The Inspired Hill,” evoking Sion. There are many of these spaces in Lorraine shaped by one or more mysteries. Pierre Rich gives us the proof in a remarkable work prefaced by Claude Vautrin.
Author and photographer Pierre Rich and preface it, great travel reporter Claude Vautrinaddress the spirituality of the Vosges Massif in various places, including through humor: “Don’t we say that to be spiritual is to have humor, this humor-humus present everywhere in nature”, writes Pierre Rich, as an echo of one of Claude Vautrin’s books “Mapuche and proud of being”: “The community that welcomed me during my initiatory immersion among the Mapuche in distant Chile had the evocative name “Where spirits have fun,” writes Claude Vautrin in the preface to Pierre Rich’s book.
“This book is divided into seven chapters (…): the waters murmuring their messages like mirror souls or gushers of foam, the fantastic lakes, the streams carrying joyful spirits; the gesture of the forests, the language so special of the undergrowth (…); his majesty the trees, these masters of the forests which can open their secret door to us (…); Advent (…); Finally, the builders of faith placed their little buildings here and there pointing towards the heights (…)”.
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