Summary 1875: a young, wealthy industrialist travels through the Forez countryside equipped with a darkroom. At a time when this medium was still in its infancy, Félix Thiollier produced nearly 25,000 photographic plates, most of which captured the contours of his country, from the foothills of the Forez to the outskirts of Saint-Etienne. In this…
Summary The Europeans named America shortly after ‘discovering’ it. How exactly did this happen? A quirky journey into the world of fake news, back in the days of the printing press… With the support of the CNC, the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region and PROCIREP.
Summary On a beach in Normandy, unprecedented archaeological discoveries lead a team of archaeologists on the trail of a Celtic people whose culture seems to differ from that of their neighbours in the rest of Gaul. Beneath the fine sand, exceptionally well-preserved remains are gradually coming to light. Time is running out before marine erosion…
Summary Produced as part of the exhibition ‘Montpellier, land of earthenware’ presented at the Fabre Museum and the Lattara-Henri Prades archaeological site in Montpellier Agglomération from 28 April to 23 September 2012.
Summary On the outskirts of Caen, archaeologists are studying a vast underground quarry. Shoes, jewellery, coins, lamps… thousands of objects litter the ground: the forgotten remains of hundreds of civilians who took refuge underground to protect themselves from Allied bombing during the D-Day landings in June 1944. In June 1944, Yvette Lethimonier was twelve years…
Summary Mysterious ruins emerge in the middle of a Normandy forest in a place called ‘Bois-l’Abbé’ near the town of Eu. Initial archaeological research conducted on the site in the 19th century suggested the presence of a monumental Roman sanctuary. In the early 2000s, when the site was being pillaged, new archaeological excavations were undertaken…
Summary What a strange idea to drive around in circles on a closed road at 300 km/h. A crazy idea, and yet so natural. The idea of the world, with its chemistry (sensations), its physics (materials and forces), its history (family and politics), its ‘religion’ (giving meaning to fear)… its tragedy (the end of the…
Summary This is the story of a man named Vitalis. He could be a fictional character living his life as one lives a destiny, thirsty for novelty, braving death to feel ever more alive. But Vitalis is only a man. A character in his own fiction, he has lived his life with death always in…
