The French began as an usher in the Nimes square until her godfather, Simón Casas, gave her the opportunity to jump into the ring
The signature of Nimes, the reason why Casas was not in the presentation of Fallas
He exhibited his spectacular physique on the posters of the San Isidro 2018 fair, where he showed his bare back in a suggestive image, although he was not a catwalk model or used to lavish his image on billboards. At 35 years old, this Frenchwoman born in Nimes has risen to fame for being involved in a world as elusive for women as bulls.
And he has done it overwhelming, since for three consecutive seasons, 2017, 18 and 19 the name of Lea Vicens has appeared at the head of the ladder of rejoneadores, displacing in numbers of runs and trophies to figures like the Portuguese Diego Ventura, Andy Cartagena or Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza. A historic milestone, as historic was his departure through the big door of Las Ventas last San Isidro fair after cutting four ears. Never had a woman achieved this.
Now, in the face of the 2020 season, he does not look like lowering his guard, because this "brunette ambition", which confesses fearing more of failure than death itself, has signed a hand in hand with Hermoso de Mendoza junior on the big day de Fallas, March 19, in the Plaza de Valencia.
A dream that he never intended to achieve when he was 16 years old, to earn extra money, like any student, was placed as an usher in the Nimes square. It was run by his mentor and current attorney, Simón Casas, also an entrepreneur of Spanish squares as important as Madrid, Valencia, Alicante or Zaragoza among others. Lea had no bullfighting history in her genes: her father Dominique had a shop and her mother Jacquie is a teacher, although they were nature and horse lovers. So much so that at age 4, Lea, the youngest of her three children, was given a pony that Ourasi baptized.
His ability on horseback earned him to move from "usher to" sheriff "and live the first-person bullfights, along with right-handed and gangs. The poison was inoculated until one afternoon, during a bullfight, she told herself that one day she would be in that same arena bullfighting on horseback. After graduating in biology from the University of Montpellier, with 20 years and without a euro in his pocket, he decided to leave Andalusia for a while, although he told his parents that it was a vacation. The mythical rejoneador Ángel Peralta, who died in 2018, his other great mentor with Simón Casas, hired her as an equine tamer in his farmhouse El Rocío, located in the Puebla del Río, Seville.
Lea was aware that he was pursuing an almost impossible dream, since his family had no tradition in raising horses or money to buy them. But he managed to be allowed to tame wild foals in his spare time, something he did at dawn and at dusk, when all the workers were going to rest. Saving what she earned, she was able to acquire her first colt, Gazelle, germ of a stable that today has 14 pure bloods of her property tamed by herself in Yeguada Cortiñal, in Cadalso de los Vidrios, near Madrid. Ángel Peralta, at first very skeptical about Lea's chances of rejonear professionally, ended up surrendering to his dream and became his godfather. To the point that in 2013, with 87 years, he dressed again to give him the alternative on July 14, 2013 in the cosmos of Nimes, his hometown.
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The same place where he started working as an usher for Simón Casas, the businessman who opened the big door of his dream of rejoneadora, put at his feet the most important places and even became his agent in 2015. The same year he his arm went to the Elíseo palace to the state dinner offered in June by President François Holland to the Kings Felipe and Letizia, on an official trip in France. A relationship so close that it has even unleashed rumors in the bullfighting world, since at the age of 73, Simón Casas, an admirer of beautiful women, was already married in first nuptials with another French rejoneadora, Marie Leconte, 17 years younger, at the That also took hold.
But the personal life of Lea Vicens is currently in brackets, officially not known as a couple and lives fully immersed in bullfighting, even out of season trains twelve hours a day on horseback. She ends up so exhausted that in her scarce free time she limits herself to reading for a while or listening to music, even in spite of the fashion looks she usually dresses, she has time to go to stores, she buys all her clothes in one day. Bullfighting is today its reason for being and also its drug.
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