Nicolas Espitalier, a feather in the air

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Nicolas Espitalier released a collection "Vertiges Coquelicot" published by Hérodios.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Nicolas Espitalier considers that what is important is not to be sought in the scum of the news, but rather in the theft of swifts, back pain, underground parking lots, journalist at Sud-Ouest, he publishes weekly short texts about it.

Today, he brings them together in his collection “Vertige coquelicot”, published by Hérodios editions.

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It deals with road maps and underground parking lots; the nights of Alexander and the hair of Eleanor; the call of the troubadour and the color of love. Of all this, many other things, and much more than that: short, very short stories, born in the heart of our lives, but which take us, far, very far towards a form of poetry and philosophy of life, as if, for the space of a few lines, time suspended its flight as if to surprise us with our own existence.

The author of these 70 singular stories, to read in order or to peck out of order, has been a journalist at

Sud-Ouest

since 2001. It is in the weekly supplement of this French regional daily that they were published for the 1st time.

Here they are together.

"Vertige coquelicot", by

Nicolas Espitalier

, has been published by Hérodios editions.

On the menu of this Café Gourmand:

Hortense Volle

went to the 26th edition of

the Rio Loco festival

 in Toulouse, the program this year is entirely dedicated to the music of the African continent and its diaspora for Africa2020. 

-

Kpénahi Traoré

also went to Toulouse, as part of Africa2020.

She presents the exhibition "Revue Noire, a history of contemporary African arts", nearly 3,500 artists have been published in this pioneering magazine of contemporary African art.

An

exhibition to see at the Abattoirs de Toulouse

until August 29, 2021

-

Muriel Maalouf

 went to the island of Porquerolles, this is where the

Carmignac Foundation

dedicated to contemporary art has just inaugurated its new exhibition: “The imaginary sea”.

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Alain Pilot

met Didier Sustrac for his 8th album “Marcher behind”.

This album includes two duets, one with Princess Erika and the second alongside Marianne James, followed by a best of. 

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