What enthusiasm, what joy from reading this book. Each page contains a corner of simple joy treasure, like turning a wasteland or a valley. All words exude cheerfulness of a now defunct campaign. The good sense of the people, generosity in human relationships and in the workplace. The exaltation of man bathed and rocked in his environment. The one from which it came, like a sculpture of his marble. Indebted to his and his land, Respectful of its past as its future. A book that is a window on the world of Vincenot. The hum of bees, the warm sun of Burgundy and sugar honey you griserons soul. Pope snails is the Gazette, colorful character, whimsical and generous. Kind of bard of the mountains, Druid of nature. It thinks Gilbert find his succesor. Gilbert is a self-taught sculptor natural and innate. Prodigious talent who devotes himself to the biblical characters sculpture. This to restore a chapel, built on a former Celtic altar. Hermit living entirely devoted to his art. But Gilbert, attracted by the success and greed, allows himself to be captivated by the smoke and mirrors of two crooks who detect in it a huge potential for the sculptor as well as a finacière windfall. Leaving his Burgundy to go to Paris, Gilbert will make learning of the defect, and no-nonsense man, will realize soon enough that life is not his own. Making the meeting a sculptor friend, Gilbert will follow this one through a journey that will lead him to restore the cathedral. Along the way he'll be closer to his native village and find the lost love of the eyes, but not the heart. This novel has nothing despite the presence of Gothic cathedrals. Pagan places, iconoclastic anyway. Vincenot has skillfully and without foiritures depicting rural landscapes and moods of its inhabitants. An amazing journey through a time that less than twenty years ....
