Title : Dar baroud - GARDEL Louis - book
Summary :
Gabriel Loré, the hero of this book, is my father. I'm going to tell his life story like a novel, because it is one, full of adventures.
How can I tell the story of Gabriel? For twenty-four years, I lived as if I had no father. I often wonder how I could accept for so long knowing nothing about him, contenting myself with the caricatured image of a colonial adventurer living in Africa, a thousand miles from what was dear to me.
At the end of the last century, he left Nîmes and landed in Morocco. The era demanded empire builders. My father would always be a nomad and the opposite of a conqueror: when Lyautey imposed the Protectorate, Gabriel retired to the house of Dar Baroud on land he never wanted to own.
How many witnesses did I have to find to know him and recognize him, to reconstruct this itinerary with its incessant twists and turns: his brother the caïd Mahieddine, Riby Azuelos, a merchant and banker from Tangier, and the three women who loved him and then lost him? Dorothy preferred to fight against slavery, Sarah-Louise had to grow up a little, and my mother raised her by hook or by crook in Spain and allowed me to fulfill my vocation in Paris: I am a dancer.
So, as I walked Gabriel's path, I kept discovering that it was as far from mine as possible. So beyond our physical resemblance—we're both blond—what makes us so close? I know now that we love the same skin and the same vibes, that we're gripped by the same desires and the same torments.
I know he would have loved Sarah-Louise as I loved her, just as much. In our own way.
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EAN : 9782286001865
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