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His library, which is abundantly stocked with dozens of books, also features the good forty books that he has had to his credit for almost as many years as he took up the pen.
Because it is at 20 that Pascal Le Rest, writer from Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), contracted the writing virus which has never left him. Except that the collections specializing in ethnology or martial arts, disciplines that he practices with expertise and passion, have now given way to an approach more focused on the discovery of a territory and those who compose it. Like his Eure-et-Loir, unusual walks that he just came out.
Ethnology and social engineering
Pascal Le Rest has made the choice in recent years to focus on Chartres then Portraits of Eurelians to develop Eure-et-Loir today. But his gaze has not changed.
As an ethnologist, he delivers life stories, anecdotes, of these discoveries which can suddenly change the vision that one has of his environment, of these details which offer a more elaborate look at his daily life.
Pascal Le Rest has a doctorate in ethnology but also a graduate in social engineering. And when he’s not filling out pages for his books he’s teaching karate.
Karate to get to know each other
From this martial art, Pascal has nourished a real passion for years, until being fifth dan today, professor.
Some see karate as brutal, linked to combat, but it is above all an excellent way to explore your inner geography, it is a vector that approaches psychoanalysis in my opinion!
A good fight, “it is first of all to understand the other, it is the mastery of a space, the other being in this space” sums up the author who, this time, was content to master a any other space, that of his department.
Lots of parallel tracks
Parisian of origin, Pascal Le Rest saw his first writings, poems, published on the occasion of a national competition in Eastern Republican.
For fifteen years he was a mathematics teacher where he moved to the East with his wife. In his spare time, he took the opportunity to obtain diplomas in social engineering and ethnology which later earned him to become a consultant, head of cabinet …
Many parallel routes that end up taking him to Chartres in 1990 where he sets down the suitcases with his partner and where he especially follows a mentor, Kamohara Senseï who had just created the Karate Do Chartres.
From a student, he became a teacher at Louillard in the Shukokai style, “I pass the grades in Japan, it’s a school that I particularly like because it is more in the dodge”.
Eure-et-Loir land of inspiration
If Pascal Le Rest found in Chartres this master who led him to evolve to the heights of his art, he also found an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his books.
Chartres was known throughout the world in medieval times for the wealth of its schools and its teachings, there were also the most important figures in Europe.
I wanted to explore more the Eurelian territories, the Drouais and the Avre valley, the Chartres region and the Eure valley, Dunois and the Loir valley, Beauce, Perche … as many entities with well-marked characteristics.
So, on these Eurelian lands, Pascal tracked down the unusual “to break with the clichés of a territory reduced to a bleak and desert Beauce, which it is not”.
Here are revealed moulins ancestral, there museums exceptional like Eugène Farcot in Sainville. Elsewhere they are forests incredible dating back to Celtic peoples like that of Senonches.
A Dreux, in the heart of the national forest is the motte castrale the highest in France. In the Avre valley, we immerse ourselves in the incredible story of a sweet dreamer who built his fortified castle.
There are obviously these stories of prestigious castles in the Paris region, surprising churches …
And then also stories ofwind turbines, not of those which make jump in the campaigns of the vehement oppositions, no, those ofAuguste Bollée which followed episodes of great drought in the 19th century.
The containment click
This book, we can peck it, use it as a road-book to explore one of these Eurelian countries by car, on foot, on horseback, by bicycle …
Pascal clicked during confinement by taking advantage of these moments of withdrawal into oneself to crush the heritage riches of Eure-et-Loir.
Untangling the skein, he, who imagined himself going to work quickly, actually found himself overwhelmed in the face of all the heritage found!
So he classified, logically, by basins of life, “as a logic of wandering but without necessarily crossing a territory like Beauce, in a usual way, on the contrary, the paths taken are unusual”.
The freedom to come and go rediscovered, he then set off to discover these emblematic places, buildings and people.
To end up with an even more impressive harvest … enough to give him already ideas for a future work and to find “boring all those who complain that there is nothing to do in Eure-et-Loir “!
█ Practice : Eure-et-Loir, unusual walks. Book in Italian format, published by Sutton. 256 pages. € 24.
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