Interview with Pierre Bouet, Honorary Lecturer and Honorary Director of the Office Universitaire d’Ătudes Normandes. It is quite a story, that of the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, between 1064 and 1066. And that story is certainly well and truly embroidered, over 70 meters long and half a meter high, […]
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The horse at the heart of the futuristic âMĂ©diathĂšque de Deauvilleâ
On October 11, 2019, Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville and promoter of the so-called âMĂ©diathĂšque Les Franciscainesâ, signed a contract with Ăric Hoyeau, President of Arqana, one of the world’s leading racehorse auction agencies, whose ties to Deauville are as obvious as they are historic, under which the operator undertook to provide financial support for […]
The Library is in the “Equidays”
We will be present in the itinerant town of the âĂquidaysâ (October 23-27, 2019). East famous event, organized by the department of Calvados, will be a great horse festival in the entire province, including a mobile town and about forty activities such as races, discoveries, encounters, horse shows, hiking, sales, open houses, etc. A link […]
Ephrem Houël tribute in bookstores
The Rocher publishing house has just published a biography of Ephrem HouĂ«l. It is the posthumous fruit of work of the journalist, writer and historian Jean-Pierre Reynaldo, to whom we owe numerous books on the trot such as Le Trotteur français, Le Trotteur americain and Charlie Mills, le cocher des dieux. In 1829, Ephrem HouĂ«l […]
A Jean-Louis Gouraud fund in Deauville
Journalist, writer, globetrotter, declared a pilgrim before the Lord after his Paris-Moscow trip in 1990 “to theTurcomana”, that is, in relief with two horses (Le PĂ©rĂ©grin emerveillĂ©, Actes Sud publishing house, 2012, Renaudot Pocket Prize), Jean-Louis Gourand is a figure of French cultural landscape “of the horse”. Curious, sometimes a little provocative, insatiable and indefatigable, […]