Not even tired. Facial features are not drawn. And especially no coffee. “No, I don’t like it!” I have only one addiction: work! “. Dawn breaks and Romain Marguerite has a smile as quick as ever, up from two in the morning. However, his day is far from over: the young Pontivyen leaves to the polyclinic , three retirement homes, the Le Rohan hotel, the main kitchen and the Kerfourchette restaurant to deliver. Before returning to the bakery until 3pm, “no break or food”.
Madness or insensitivity?
Baker. an existence not at all like the others that Romain intellectually embraced. It was even written on the wood of his cradle. “As a child, I got up every night at two or three in the morning, so my parents always told me that I would be a baker,” laughs this unstoppable enthusiast. works “on average 70 hours a week, seven days a week and 365 a year.” And who, obviously, at this point, has only a few scraps of free time left. “I don’t know if it’s madness or ignorance that drives me, but I like it. Anyway, even with one leg in a cast, I would come to work. “Baker is not a job, it’s a way of life.”
Trouble and happiness!
Romain Marguerite. “With one t, like the flower.” A baker in his prime, of course, who followed us all night in his bakery in Noyal-Pontivy. We saw his hands whitened with flour as he was busy shaping rye or corn bread into circles. We saw him shape his sun colored chopsticks which, once they were taken out of the oven, started to sing.
As a child, Romain got up every night at 2 or 3 am. His parents then told him he would become a baker. What it has become! (By Telegram/Pierre Bernard)
A beautiful work that the Morbihannais do every night alone… Well, almost. “My first child, when he didn’t sleep through the night, stayed with me at the bakery and now he is able to give me a helping hand,” smiled the father at was New Year’s Eve last year, that was, to say the least, disturbed. “My second son was born on the night of December 30. Around two in the morning, my wife started having contractions so I left everything in place in the bakery, it was my sister-in-law who came to finish the production, guided I called her from the hospital. Raphaël was born at 6am and I returned to the bakery at 8am to finish everything. My two children were born in trouble! “.
Salary and freedom
He was born in Normandy. But it was in Rohan, near Noyal-Pontivy, that he passed his CAP. “Out of the fourteen in the class, there are only two of us who are bakers today. Now young people want to have their weekends. However, you can earn a good living, over €2,000 as an employee every 35 hours. And then all our afternoons will be free,” delights this true business leader, younger than his 19 employees and who can’t see himself doing another job. Even if, a soon, he will have to slow down a bit. “In two or three years, my partner will want a real vacation or things like that, especially for the kids, that’s normal.” After all, free time is not easy.
