When the Senator of the Lot Raphaël Daubet, book roots and confidences …

“Old country” : Already through the title of the work, the depth of the gaze that Raphaël Daubet looks at this Lot country, which has become his own; Memories of enchanted moments, surprises and surprises … However, Not the look of the elected political, the senator, the former mayor of the city with the seven towers … Furthermore, No, “old country”, these are the things of life, these elements that have imperceptibly shaped man.

Raphaël Daubet shares us various scenes lived. In addition, as we would tell stories to a friend; significant moments, sometimes funny; Scenes that beyond the anecdote or the unusual, say a lot about the bond maintained with when senator lot raphaël daubet, the earth and the river, thus delivering a certain approach to the world.

A definition of happiness, far from the beaten track …

How about a mushroom outing. Moreover, picking these “champagne traffic jams” and how not to fall into a whirlwind at the sight of the lynx, extricating from the coppice from the forest …

Raphaël Daubet takes us to the vegetable garden. Meanwhile, cultivate his passion for gardening, like his grandfather “for whom nothing gave more happiness than what we had done yourself”. However, You will tell me news of these tomatoes in the garden, to the taste of the earth and the sun! For example, The pleasure of tasting, which comes after effort; A personal and concrete ecology!

There is also this passage through the cellar. “this world apart”; An atmosphere imbued when senator lot raphaël daubet, with silence, a kind of sanctuary of unsuspected powers, the place of all fermentations “where we methodically prepared the drunkenness to come” …

Then the Dordogne. this mythical river, that of all expectations, which must be learned to tame and on which to know how to drive a boat; Operating a descent in Gabarrot, crossing a dam, is not within the reach of the first comer … “From the fastest that my memories go up. I know that the clear and fishy waters of the Dordogne awaken in me an irresistible instinct and fascination”.

Going back to the first men …

The deep anchoring in which Raphaël Daubet has planted his roots. speaks volumes about man and the meaning he gave to all these scenes of daily life which marked his mind: “More than the earth, I plowed without knowing the smooth skin of my when senator lot raphaël daubet, urban childhood (allusion to its origins which preceded its arrival in the lot), and gave it deeper, the relief and the thickness, Raphaël Daubet has made this land of the lot his own; Like a first love he no longer defended, whatever happened later …

How not to be moved with him. during this descent into a causian cave, where the time of the first men, figures, or even perhaps even messages to us, appear over the ages …

“Old country” reveals this immoderate love that Raphaël Daubet has a lot. A quasi-fusion relationship to nature and a continuous need for returning to sources. Would he not have become in turn. a little of this land, these villages and these landscapes, to which he experiences an unwavering attachment? With Old country, Raphaël Daubet recounts his intimate lot and signs a poetic story, imbued with memory and earth.

Superb cover illustration signed by Tiffanie Ferro.

Raphaël Daubet will be present at the 43^eBrive’s book fairwhich will be held from November 7 to 9, 2025.

Raphaël Daubet’s signing sessions

Here are the next dates. meeting places to meet Raphaël Daubet during signing sessions.

– Saturday August 9, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., in Gramat: Raphaël Daubet dedicated to the Maison de la Presse, 8 avenue Louis Conte,

And Saturday August 9, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., in Gramat, at the Leclerc cultural space, low fields.

-Tuesday August 12, from 3 p.m. Additionally, to 8:30 p.m.. in Marcilhac-sur-Célé: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Raphaël Daubet and all latitude editions will be present at the Book Fair on the theme “History and heritage of Occitania”, in the capitular room of the XI abbey^e century,

-Friday, August 15, from 9 a.m. to when senator lot raphaël daubet, 12 p.m.. in Souillac: Raphaël Daubet dedicated to the bookstore-Maison de la Presse “Le Point d’Oc”, 19 bd Louis-Jean Malvy,

– Saturday August 16, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., in Gourdon: Raphaël Daubet dedicated to the bookstore “Books and you”, 26 BD Mainiol.

“Old country”, by Raphaël Daubet – Cover illustration of Tiffanie Ferro – Editions All Latitude – www.toutelatitude.com

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