Title : Somewhere in the World - Claude Michelet - book
The beginnings of cinema, aviation... The extraordinary destiny of a daring Corrèze native who conquered the world.
"It was when he saw his father one day on his knees before the MP's wife that Sylvestre swore to himself that he would never take over the family business." Thus begins Somewhere in the world and, indeed, Claude Michelet's young hero will do anything to escape the well-trodden destiny of his father, and before him of his grandfather: to spend his life fitting the feet of all the town's notables - with all that this implies in terms of respectability but also servility. What Sylvestre wants is "to work, but in a job that pleases [him] and above all by staying upright, always." After patiently champing at the bit in his father's workshop despite some inevitable altercations, on his seventeenth birthday he announces to his stunned family that he is leaving. He will return from time to time to visit them, but he will not take over the Neyrat & Fils company... Sylvestre learned his trade on the roads of Limousin by learning the trade of peddler, before going to Paris where he found a job as a handyman and then as a salesman for Félix Potin, the "revolutionary" grocer of the very beginning of the century: everywhere he goes, he succeeds, but he quickly gets bored... One day, he discovers cinematography, and it is a revelation: this is what he wants to do! Forcing his luck as always, he goes to the Vincennes studios, and has the first important encounter of his life, that of Romain Deslieux, an enterprising businessman determined to launch himself into this new art that is increasingly popular with the public. Amused by the young man's audacity, impressed by his determination, Deslieux offers Sylvestre the chance to become a reporter for Pathé. And so begins the life of adventures that will lead the little Corrèze native to travel across America, from the Panama Canal to Chile, from Cape Horn to the Great Lakes with his cameras and his video camera, like a true pioneer of the early 20th century. In Panama, the subject of his first report, he will have the second great encounter of his life, that of Terry, a beautiful American woman with a character as strong as his own, as enamored of freedom as he is, as curious about everything new, unexplored - aviation, for example, one of their shared passions. A woman of his own stature with whom he will live a story of astonishing modernity for the time on this single promise, yet beautifully romantic: to live each one's life but to find each other, always, somewhere in the world...
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EAN : 9782221108024
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