I was going to regain in Toulouse my winter quarters when arrived per day of rain, Mr Leblond, Préfet of the Batch which I did not know. Not being immediately presented, I initially believed to have has to make with the one of the many walkers from which I come to speak. Also our conversation in its first minutes took it a turn cocasse, especially when Mr Leblond, with this authority of the gods of Olympe which a position authorized to him that I were unaware of, started by saying that they were not any more 2 m² but 40 m² that it had to be made and that I harness myself there either by playing Arlésienne, but to residence, placed in Bouzies and until end is followed from there.
I do not know how Mr Leblond was caught there. Always it is that the subsidies arrived, then the electricity accompanied by tools less summary than my points and two-handed hammers, plus a housing: for 16 month I could only work on the site where passes today in front of 36m² of low relief, the vetetists, the walkers, the hikers, the boats flies and the pleasure boats going up of Cahors towards Saint-Cirq since the water handing-over of the locks. During my hard hermitage, I had realized of the quality exceptional of this rock kind of spar, very hard which I think able to transform itself into genuine mirror after him to have made undergo a meticulous polishing.
upon the low existing relief (selected topic: "the Batch, passage to ford"), a screen mirror in this solid rock, tended and polished perfectly on 4 or 5 m², would be capable to reflect as well as water of the river, all the landscape, and the walkers of Causse, newcomer of Cirq-Lapaupie Saint and the boats going up or going down again the river on water. After this discovery, at the end of the chantier(sep 1989), I tried without success, a step near Mr Faure, then president of the General Council, in order to see whether it would be possible not having never had myself a valiant penny to gather some money to help me has to finish the 40 m² by this point of surprising organ which would have made like a response of rock cliff to the reflections on the surface of water. At the time (1989), to continue the building site had been thing easy: all the material was still on the spot except that my idea did not have the hor to raise enthusiasm
Although participant of a certain beneficial tourist revalorization of the area, my low relief and his mirror could not compete with the stake of the colossal budgets which were going to be devoted to the start-up of the locks and the river navigation. Pushed back with the Greek calends, my project was buried.
le lot | continuation of the project... 1989-1999