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The municipality, driven by the dynamic David Pliquet, and cultural associations Camaret (Friends of the District of St. Thomas, Nautical Arts Culture) had well prepared the event. The three-day tribute to Saint-Pol-Roux, who adopted the little port Finistere in 1905 to stay with him, were dense, generous and festive. The pretext of this celebration, the 70th anniversary of the poet's death, had been unreasonably solemnize the atmosphere, but if some events did not fail to move, is the vitality of the magnificent work that occupied especially the scene.

Friday, July 30

At ten o'clock came the timely meeting of the Society of Friends of Saint-Pol-Roux. Café de la Marine, the former Hotel de la Marine, Rosalie Dorso, hospitable to artists and writers resort, originally selected to host the meeting closed, the four members who had made the trip, opted for bistro nearby. One could therefore see, over coffee and discussing the future of the association, MM. Jean-Louis Debauve Alistair Whyte, Marcel Burel & Mikael Lugan. The time will come later, for members, the minutes of this small but friendly AG. Also, moving away from us Quai Gustave Toudouze and commit ourselves on the Place Saint Thomas greeted at 14:30, the first scheduled conferences. Marie-Françoise Bonneau, guide and historian, traced the life of Saint-Pol-Roux before a large audience, relatively, and curious. The exchange that followed, was fed and interesting. The Poets' Club then gave a recital of poems by contemporary Magnificent: Mallarme, Verlaine, Max Jacob, Apollinaire, etc.. This is the Poets' Club - which we know is traditionally his summer home on the peninsula Crozon - which was to close the first day, with a beautiful & poignant poetic performance, coupled tribute to Jean-Pierre Rosnay, who died last December, and Saint-Pol-Roux. The location of this event could not be more appropriate since the natural scene and night was ruined Cœcilian Manor, fantastically illuminated for the occasion.

Saturday, July 31

The next day, two news conferences: Mikael Lugan first spoke of friendship Saint-Pol-Roux & Andre Antoine, Camaret citizens: the first, certainly deserved the title, which remained there thirty-five years, but the second will only resort and villas sold in 1935. However, Saint-Pol-Roux was baptized and the founder of the Theatre Libre in 1903: "Tony, Camaret citizen" and, despite the reluctance of the ogre drama, the poet was not wrong, no doubt, since Antoine lives there now, a neighbor of his perpetual unlikely friend, the little cemetery Marine Camaret. Marcel Burel then entertained the audience, came many more, relatively, than the day before, years roscanvel (1898-1905) of the Magnificent. Roscanvel himself, professor of classics and eminent historian of the Peninsula, he was able to show beautifully, from the texts in this period, how Saint-Pol-Roux, charmed by the village, stripped off his clothes in Paris to be or become roscanvel. Again some interesting exchanges. The rest of the afternoon was no less dense than the preceding events: musical settings of poems of the Magnificent, an extravaganza of essays by Jean-Pierre Rosnay whose life is dedicated to poets and poetry that deserved we also pay tribute to him during these three days. At night, two concerts animated the moor, emmi Lagatjar the menhirs.

Sunday, August 1st

is next to Alistair Whyte to speak. Readers of Saint-Pol-Roux know him: he prepared, with Jacques Goorma, publishing, at Rene Rougerie, most of the volumes published since the 1980s. Olivier Rougerie, initially planned could not come, Alistair held two hours of conferences, events, initially, a café philo-fresco on the theme: "What is poetry? . One left Saint-Pol-Roux - although barely - the better to return. Alistair Divine knew very well, and it is natural that he decided to devote his second speech to the daughter of the poet, that he had the holy angel of my loneliness. He spoke of the woman she was, her dedication to her father, her sense of humor also, and then he left the floor to Goorma Jacques, who was unable to attend these three days, recorded a reading of the beautiful poem, "My God has twenty years', written by Saint-Pol-Roux in 1918. The emotion in the audience, while on a screen, scroll, Accompanying the beautiful voice of the poet Jacques Goorma, photos of Divine, was sensitive. Thus ended the cycle of conferences on the Place Saint Thomas. He returned to the musical, "Saint-Pol-Roux, poet forgotten? "Celine Caussimon & Cecile Girard to close the festivities saint-pol-Roussin. It was given in the chapel Rocamadour, which hosted the exhibition opened on July 10, the chapel was packed. Combining text of Beautiful, said the two actresses, musicians and Loïc Baylacq, who portrayed the poet, musical interludes (accordion, cello and tuba qu'embouchait Jean-Yves Lacombe) reconstructions Important biographical episodes (playing the Lady with the scythe to the French Comedy, the banquet of 1925), the show, thoroughly researched and well constructed (so that the work of documentation does not appear on stage), underwent a great success.

Yes, definitely Camaret had done things. These three days were a great success. For the city and the poet. And I hope that next year, for the hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Saint-Pol-Roux, entered the national celebrations, other cities - Marseille, where he was born in Paris where he lived and fought in the time Symbolism in Brest where he died - will make their fair tribute to the Magnificent. It suffices, for this, with their means, far more consequential, to follow the example Camarétois dynamics.