In Arveyres (Gironde), in June 2012, it was Bernard Guilhem, the mayor of the town, who personally came to the mechanical rescue of young Vianney.
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Born in Pau to military parents before going to grow up in Paris, it was in this city that he first returned to take the start of his Road Trip with 32 stages and 130 kilometers daily. Then to go a little later to stop at Jurançon (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), and introduce yourself to the correspondent of the newspaper who will quote him thus in our columns: “The reception of people is sometimes suspicious, some are also skeptical about his approach, but the dialogue is most often established”, wrote Marc Bruno. “Besides, the Pau scooter operator estimates that only 3 to 4% of them asked him to go elsewhere. If Vianney does not refuse board and lodging, he most often sleeps outside, on a ground sheet, in a duvet. »
Unable to find refuge with the locals, Vianney was forced to bivouac on the old stones of Deux-Sèvres.
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He sleeps most often on a floor mat, in a duvet
“People tell me their difficulties, but don’t see electricity as a reliable technology,” he said. Water will have since flowed under the bridges of France and Navarre, when more than 30,000 electric scooters were still sold there last year. In defense of these bad oracles, remember that Vianney then had to constantly recharge the battery of a machine with stammering reliability. Called to the rescue, the mayor of Arveyres (Gironde) can testify today. “This kid that I helped out on my farm, is he the singer? “, does not come back Bernard Guilhem.
Vianney, solitary tightrope walker in Mimizan (Landes).
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” It was him ? »
From his appearance as an ideal son-in-law – shorts, white shirt and sweater tied on the shoulders – until then Marc Bruno also only kept a fleeting memory. “A charming boy, but I had absolutely not made the connection with the star he has become. Incredible, when I go to tell my granddaughter that her granddaughter knows Vianney…” Similar astonishment on the side of Sarliac-sur-l’Isle, in the Dordogne, where Jean-Claude Faure still does not make the link between his article of then and today’s star. “I had written that he was about to enter a fashion school, not to become a singer. With a stylist’s diploma effectively in hand, it took Vianney no more than two years to release a first album immediately crowned with a diamond disc. A second soon followed – sold over 500,000 copies – and two Victoires de la Musique.