Photos De Voyage
Billy Cone has intimately toured France since Francis Mitterrand took office. He’s more than just a visitor to this land of foie gras, vin rouge and tgv speed trains. His involvement is epiphany-like as he retells adventure after adventure with a grand plethora of memorable photos evocative words. And as if that is not tempting enough, he samples everything from the most of foods to the sublime. Each visit to the hexagone, Billy has found La France profonde where cafes have zinc bar counters, where people speak with their non-parisian accents, where nouvelle cuisine is non-existent and the food sticks to your bones, where the poete/chanteur Francis Cabrel sings his southern accented magic into the souls of a good following, where the value of tradition is respected and observed, and where you can still wash your clothes in a thousand-year-old laverie by a roman canal just as old. Billy’s experiences and photographs, which depict the weight of a culture laid on foreigners thickly and sometimes almost rudely, successfully demonstrate a very unique people with very unique contributions to the world. In short, Billy Cone records the France of today and yesterday like no other foreign adventurier.
Billy Cone has intimately toured France since Francis Mitterrand took office. He’s more than just a visitor to this land of foie gras, vin rouge and tgv speed trains. His involvement is epiphany-like as he retells adventure after adventure with a grand plethora of memorable photos evocative words. And as if that is not tempting enough, he samples everything from the most of foods to the sublime. Each visit to the hexagone, Billy has found La France profonde where cafes have zinc bar counters, where people speak with their non-parisian accents, where nouvelle cuisine is non-existent and the food sticks to your bones, where the poete/chanteur Francis Cabrel sings his southern accented magic into the souls of a good following, where the value of tradition is respected and observed, and where you can still wash your clothes in a thousand-year-old laverie by a roman canal just as old. Billy’s experiences and photographs, which depict the weight of a culture laid on foreigners thickly and sometimes almost rudely, successfully demonstrate a very unique people with very unique contributions to the world. In short, Billy Cone records the France of today and yesterday like no other foreign adventurier.
Billy Cone has intimately toured France since Francis Mitterrand took office. He’s more than just a visitor to this land of foie gras, vin rouge and tgv speed trains. His involvement is epiphany-like as he retells adventure after adventure with a grand plethora of memorable photos evocative words. And as if that is not tempting enough, he samples everything from the most of foods to the sublime. Each visit to the hexagone, Billy has found La France profonde where cafes have zinc bar counters, where people speak with their non-parisian accents, where nouvelle cuisine is non-existent and the food sticks to your bones, where the poete/chanteur Francis Cabrel sings his southern accented magic into the souls of a good following, where the value of tradition is respected and observed, and where you can still wash your clothes in a thousand-year-old laverie by a roman canal just as old. Billy’s experiences and photographs, which depict the weight of a culture laid on foreigners thickly and sometimes almost rudely, successfully demonstrate a very unique people with very unique contributions to the world. In short, Billy Cone records the France of today and yesterday like no other foreign adventurier.