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Saint-Tropez Yachting
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The Mediterranean has long been a stage for epic regattas, where maritime passion and heritage are celebrated. In 1981, Dick and Celia Jayson, aboard their Swan 44, joined forces with Patrice de Colmont and skipper Jean Laurain to create the Nioulargue regatta in Saint-Tropez, later renamed the V...
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Journalist and writer Laurence Benaïm is the author of highly regarded biographies on Yves Saint Laurent, Marie-Laure de Noailles and Jean-Michel Frank (Grasset, 2001, 2017, 2018), in addition to La Sidération (Stock, 2021) and Paris, capitale de Guerlain (Flammarion, 2021). She has written several books on fashion and style history for Assouline, including Yves Saint Laurent: The Impossible Collection (2020), Orientalism Style (2022), Carita (2022) and Guerlain: An Imperial Icon (2023).
Originally a photographer, Didier Ravon was part of the national French sailing team, competing in and covering many editions of the Nioulargue and the Voiles de Saint- Tropez. The former editor-in-chief of the magazine Voiles et Voiliers, to which he still contributes today, he also covers sailing for the daily newspaper Libération and has published several books, including for Gallimard.
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This is a strange sporting contest, having its own rules that are only known to us, but which are shared by all who understand that sailing is an adventure, a game, and, above all, a pleasure.
— Patrice de Colmont, founder of the Nioulargue
Page count
328 pages
Number of illustrations
over 200
Language
English
Released on
September 2024
Dimensions
W 25 x L 33 x D 3 cm
Cover materials
silk hardcover
ISBN
9781649803771
Weight
1.996 kg
Author
Laurence Benaïm, Didier Ravon
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