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‘WE ARE NOT ABOVE NATURE, WE ARE PART OF IT’

’ve never felt very comfortable in cities. I spent 10 unsettled years in Paris, but I was born and grew up in Brittany, on the mainland in front of Ouessant, the island I live on now. My father died when I was seven and the only recollections I have of him are from

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