“Humanity believes it can live without animals by urbanizing societies and delegating intelligence to digital systems. If this were to happen, human societies would be inhuman.” This is what we will remember from the long interview that the professional horseman Nicolas Blondeau, founder and leader of a horse training method and of a company that […]
The Rocher publishing house has just published a biography of Ephrem Houël. 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 Houël […]
On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, Johan Dejager * died of a myocardial infarction. Head of the textile industry (Osta Carpets), Flemish, passionate about sailing and horse riding, just turned sixty (May 21, 1959). He was the owner of horses, organizer of competitions (Anvers, Waregem) and in recent years he had been passionate about rare and […]
Jean-Louis Gouraud, seventy-five years old, a journalist by vocation, begins to work at the magazine Jeune Afrique in 1968, in his youth he traveled that continent many times, he was passionate about their issues but also for their ambitions, which have a common denominator: the education, training. This is why for years he dedicated himself […]
Mario Gennero, was born in the Turin countryside «on the farm we had draft horses and mules» and he still lives in the Turin suburb of Settino. At seventy-two years old, he is still passionate about literature and books. He is a language teacher, he speaks French, Portuguese and Spanish, but he frowns at the […]