The call of the sea at the end of the road. Then, a elbow. And the sea has changed in a seaside stroll in the spray. The dike opened its walk to the five fugitives who left shortly after Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), Alex Baudin (EF Education-Easypost), Ewen Costiou (Arkea B & B Hotels), Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), Marco Haller (Tudor) and Ivan Garcia Cortina (Movistar), runners who were full Day, this Friday, July 11, lined by the peloton.
On the dike of Pléneuf-Val-André (Côtes-d’Armor): an iodized indolence, large pink sandstone residences or shale villas, spectators with Bow-Windows or on the wooden balconies painted in white. The Pléneuf’s memory man, he remained his nose in his large red leather binders, fed in the old and brown photo. He takes the features of an old foam. Michel Grimaud sailed in Newfoundland, his only infidelity in Pléneuf. Here, he marked in the sand pits and caught the sea urchin and the scallop at the small port next door, Dahouët. He has black eyes riddled with brushy eyebrows, low voice and weary flow, that of his 87 years. With him, it’s the dike. When his memory dates back to high tide, he speaks from another century, plots sold by the town to a “Suez Canal Engineer” and “Egyptian ministers”.
Michel Grimaud collected postcards, skimmed the Departmental Archives, the Fund of the Compagnie des Indes de Lorient, C
