Book - Paul Frère (French edition) - 2014

This book also aims—or is this its primary aim?—to bear witness to younger generations of the immense activity of which a man was capable in the not-so-distant past. Through sheer patience, energy, skill, and curiosity, he participated in so many motor races, wrote thousands of articles and books in several languages, traveled around the world multiple times, analyzed the behavior of hundreds of cars, met people from all five continents, and, of course, started a family of three children! If I extract the essence of all the accounts I've gathered from people who knew Paul well, I retain this: for him, the profession of journalism went beyond the simple need to inform. It was a thirst for knowledge, constantly renewed, analyzed, mastered, and then regurgitated to readers or listeners in search of understanding. But always with a refined didactic sense and biblical clarity. he car has always been a means of transport, a way to dream, and a means of self-affirmation, whether socially or in sports. And the lessons Paul drew from his vast experience in the automotive world, as a driver and journalist, surely hold symbolic value. What did he want to prove by examining these hundreds of cars? That the development of our society was inevitably linked to the automotive world, that motorsport has always been and always will be part of the nature of the competitive individual, and that the design created during the Bugatti era also brought the car into the realm of art. In short, Paul undoubtedly, in his own way, transcended the "automobile as an object," truly giving it... a soul!

Publisher: FSA
Publishing Date: 2014
Size: 21 x 30cm
Illustration: 500 colour and BW photos
Number of pages: 256


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