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LE GOUT DU TERROIR Yves du Manoir There is no other way than
stop some minutes in front of the monument dedicated in memory of Yves du
Manoir. The elders remember this grey and aslept morning on 01/02/1928. The
country shrouded by a cocoon of fog, waits patiently from winter a possible
break in the clouds. At 10 p.m., a plane purring, more and more pronounced
break this silence to finish in the wreck of broken wood. A HERO DIED IN REUILLY,
AT 23. Yves Frantz Loys Marie Le Pelley du MANOIR was born on08/01/1904 in
Vaucresson, near Versailles. His
family, Viscount and Viscountess LE PELLEY, stayed in this city for some
days, while they live in Paris, rue de Rennes. In his childhood,
protected by some strange flames, Yves du Manoir received gifts from the
nature. Strong above average, intelligent, physically good-looking and very
elegant, he dominated mostly in sports, tennis, athleticism and shines like a
star in Rugby. In this sport, his
popularity exploded a day on January 1925 during an international bout
between the French and Irish teams in Stade de Colombes. He is awesome. A journalist wrote :
"The first time we see appear this young boy in the French team, the
crowd, who doesn't choose, but let its instinct go, dedicated him all its
enthusiasm". Admitted at the
Polytechnic School on 09/18/1924, he went out in 1925 and chose active
aeronautic as corporal. The preparation of his
pilot degree in the Camp of Avord, near Bourges is seriously disturbed by his
numerous displacement to Paris for his training and matches of Rugby. On Monday, February the
second 1928, he stood down for the France/Scotland match in Colombes. The
same day, he wants and must execute an exercise of piloting : The
Avord-Romorantin-Châteauroux triangle with a Caudron 59. Has the pilot, without
markers, wanted to search the railway Paris-Toulouse or recognise some
points? On the way of La
Valterie, Death waits already to give his kiss and like an aligned regiment,
the poplars near the "Rivière forcée", hidden by fog, catch a
wheel… There is only a long moan, in the shudder of branches… The moan of Yves Frantz Loys Marie Le Pelley du MANOIR. |
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This website has been designed to introduce the Tourism
Office of Reuilly For further information, please contact the Office :
5, rue RABELAIS ; 36260 REUILLY FRANCE Tel : 02.54.49.24.94. (between 9h/12h and 14h/18h pm) E-Mail : reuilly@fnotsi.net Webmaster : François NERRAND and Arnaud LHOTE Translation : François Nerrand (thanks to Adeline
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