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editorial by Michel Bouvard


Michel Bouvard Michel Bouvard, president of the European Association of the Elected Representatives of the Mountain Regions and the Committee of the Massif des Alpes, has been representing the interests of the Maurienne at the Assemblée Nationale since 1993. A lover of these regions in which economy, culture, nature and environmental protection mix and sometimes clash, he has recreated this valley and its particular personality especially for Latitude as a ‘Chinese puzzle’...
 
a famous person
Without a doubt, it would be Bonaparte

Without a doubt, it would be Bonaparte, soon to become Napoleon I, grand captain in a valley with a proud military history, but also Napoleon...  Lire
 
an animal
It would have to be, of course, the Alpine ibex

It would have to be, of course, the Alpine ibex, the symbol of the Vanoise National Park. The park is located between the high mountain valleys of the Maurienne and the Tarentaise ...  Lire
 
a material

It would inevitably be the "lauze", a very heavy local stone of crystalline schist, which characterises the traditional roofing in the Haute Maurienne...  Lire
 
a trade
Ce serait à l’évidence le forgeron

It would have to be a blacksmith. Like a contemporary Alpine Hephaïstos, he would know how to craft water and fire, and master the art of iron production, from extraction...  Lire
 
a book
Ce serait « Le Désert des Tartares » de Dino Buzzati

It would be The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati. Despite the fact the supposed model of the Bastiani fort is located in the Dolomites...  Lire