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In the region where I grew up, the future has this face: René Monory, president of the regional council.
Catherine Meurisse (Les grands espaces)
With her sister and her parents, Catherine Meurisse moved to the Deux-Sèvres region near Melle. The couple became owners of a farmhouse to be completely renovated.
” On this land that none of our forefathers had inhabited, our history took root. Quickly, this place becomes a haven of peace while everything around is under the influence of Monsanto and the big farms.
The father – a forestry engineer – began the major work with a lot of enthusiasm, while the daughters imagined a museum in the style of “Pierre Loti”, the writer who settled in Rochefort.
In this sweet and tender album, the author of Modern Olympia tells about her childhood. A childhood that warms hearts. Especially considering that Catherine Meurisse was caught in the turmoil of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January 2015. After La légèreté, her touching and heartbreaking album about her post-attack reconstruction, Catherine Meurisse needed to tell her story inLes grands espacesThis autobiography is a true hymn to the countryside.
It is in the first pages that the author of La vie de palais evokes René Monory, then president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council. A former garage owner and Minister of Education, René Monory had the idea to create the Futuroscope. A theme park based on innovation and new technologies, it was inaugurated in 1987 in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, a few kilometers from Poitiers.
With Ségolène Royale, the former president of the Senate is thus sketched with a lot of humor by the former press cartoonist. “You can’t do it over again, I’m a cartoonist”, Catherine Meurisse apologizes with malice when the subject of the political characters drawn through her album is raised.
In 1997, ten years after its opening, the Futuroscope saw its attendance explode with more than 2.9 million visitors in one season: its record.
Futuroscope
Inaugurated in 1987, Futuroscope is a theme park based on innovation and new technologies.
Located in the communes of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou and Jaunay-Marigny in the Vienne department, this theme park covers 35 hectares.
With more than 50 million visitors since its opening in 1987, it is one of the most visited parks in France.
Designed by René Monory, then president of the Vienne departmental council, it is currently managed by La compagnie des Alpes.
New technologies are at the heart of the Futuroscope project. Visitors can watch films in 3 or 4D, take part in dynamic cinemas or watch a night show.
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Catherine Meurisse grew up in the countryside, surrounded by stones and trees, and with a building site in front of her eyes: the farm her parents were renovating in order to live there as a family. A big old house that is being transformed, trees to be planted, a garden to be imagined, nature to be observed: this is how the taste for creation is born and the beginnings of a future profession are born: draftswoman. With humor and tenderness, the author recounts the paradise of childhood, which nature, art and literature, her lifelong allies, can help to preserve as well as to overcome. Les Grands Espaces tells the story of a childhood and the imagination that unfolds there, in complete freedom.
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