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Bordeaux and the bulls, a passion that dates back to Antiquity

It took courage to put a scattered memory together in a book. Whether you taste it or not, Bordeaux is a bullfighting capital. This is also the title of this sum cleverly assembled and led by Antoine Briscadieu. Auctioneer, he took over from his father, Alain.

Better, he completed the project that the latter had left at the stage of the draft: a story of this Gironde bullfighting. A passion that crosses the generations. Among the Briscadieu, it has a name: afición. But the great strength of the book is that it is not addressed only to circles of initiates. It is in reality a real work of historian, co-signed by Aude Briscadieu, associate of history.

Roganeau’s painting “Race of May 30, 1957 at Arènes Bordeaux Bouscat” (detail). © Photo credit: Horizon Chimérique

A long journey is thus traced: fights …

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