Bernard Mondon has been travelling the slopes of the Ventoux for several years, but also the pages that many writers have blackened with their impressions and memories of Comtat Venaissin. A passionate and exciting storyteller, he will present with his Provençal verve the personality of Marie-Thérèse Chalon (1902-1978). It is in 1976 that this carpentrasienne published at Stock A life like a day in which she evoked memories of her life in Carpentras and Comtat Venaissin in the heart of the 20th century. In a beautiful style, clear and clear, she testifies to her happy childhood in a farm 2 km from Carpentras, then her installation in the center of the city where she held a business for several decades, street Porte de Mazan. Prefaced by Robert Sabatier, this autobiography was a great success during its release, crowned with the Broquette-Gonin prize awarded by the Académie française.
Marie-Thérèse Chalon made her mark when she was invited on June 11, 1976, to Apostrophe, the television program presented by Bernard Pivot. Our modest carpentrassie shows a remarkable naturalness and aplomb.
His son, Jean Chalon, a famous writer and journalist, donated the manuscript of these memoirs to the Inguimbertine. These are four notebooks filled with beautiful blue ink that enrich the collection of manuscripts of the venerable Carpentrian library. Alongside other authentic sources, these four notebooks are a direct testimony, taken from the hand of Marie-Thérèse Chalon, made available to historians of today and tomorrow who are anxious to understand the Comtat Venaissin and the 20th century.