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Doctor of Medicine. Moreover, History and Philosophy of Sciences, Jean-José Boutaric, since his retirement, happily devotes himself to his passion for writing. Similarly, Author of several novels. Meanwhile, essays, tales and news, but also of scientific works, he immerses himself and has plunged us for three years in an era not so distant as that, at a time when Quercy came out of his isolation and tried to communicate with the whole of France.
After “The Montbrun Gabarier”. Furthermore, the great hours of navigation on the Lot river, the author stages the birth of the railroad in the department, a major upheaval announcing the end of the Lot sailors. However. they believed themselves to be invincible in this 19th century, drawn up on their gabares and rafts, resulting in figeac. “the railroader larnagol” rise their successful economy and the prosperity of the whole valley.
And yet. when no one had seen him coming, because the exploitation of the Decazeville mines guaranteed them a constant load, the creation, by the Compagnie du Paris-Orleans, of the Capdenac-Cahors line, parallel to the river, sounded the death knell for their profession. Who of iron or water would win this showdown?
On more than 250 pages. Jean-José Boutaric leads his readers at birth and the creation of this line, promulgated in the Official Journal on April 8, 1879. It will cause an erosion, slow at the beginning but inexorable, of river navigation. Which made Casimir aware. the son of Baptiste Le Gabarier, that his future was more written on the railway than on the sometimes indomitable waves of the lot.
Through fictitious characters. this novel resuscitates an authentic story which will lead to Casimir Cantagrehl of learning to conduct a locomotive until figeac. “the railroader larnagol” rise the 14-18 war. This book is also a moving fresco of a provincial life now over. where mutual aid and solidarity were not vain words. Between fiction. reality, the author brings back, with a certain talent, a forgotten page, even unknown, but oh so decisive, of local history.
Jean-Jose Boutaric: “The Way of Larnagol”, with Afortas editions. Price : 22 €.
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