Jean Mahy
Nonno di Carl · Archeologo e storico dell'arte · «Monsieur Randonnée» su RTBF
Il padre di Charline Mahy. Archeologo e storico dell'arte di formazione, esportatore di attrezzi di professione, geometra del Belgio per vocazione. La RTBF lo trasformò in «Monsieur Randonnée», la guida che, in «Sous les pavés, la plage», conduceva gli spettatori lungo percorsi che nessuno aveva mai visto prima di lui. «Ha due cappelli, uno per l'esportazione, uno per le escursioni», scrisse Pourquoi Pas ? nel 1979.
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Curriculum vitae
The key dates of Jean Mahy's journey, year by year.
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Un uomo con il vento nelle suole
"An odd fellow, there is no other word. This teenager in his sixties has wind in his soles." That is how Pourquoi Pas ? introduced Jean Mahy in September 1979, on the eve of his first RTBF broadcasts. For years he had been walking the country's thirty thousand square kilometres, discovering everything others had passed by without seeing.
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North Cape, August 1952: The Travel Notebook
A school copybook, eighteen pages in pen, and ten days on the road: from 1 to 10 August 1952, Jean Mahy drove alone from Brussels up towards the North Cape, through Holland, a Germany still in ruins, Denmark, southern Sweden, Lapland, Finland and finally Norway.
Apri il capitoloRTBF, «Sous les pavés... la plage»
The archive films of the RTBF (Studio 4) series in which Jean Mahy, "Monsieur Randonnée", took viewers along the routes he had drawn up. Copies kept in the family archives.
Apri il capitoloRTBF, «Les chemins racontent»
The archive films of the second RTBF (Studio 4) series devoted to Jean Mahy's walks. Copies kept in the family archives.
Apri il capitoloNero, Rosso, Verde: Il Metodo
The bohemian was a stickler for order. He filed, sorted, annotated maps, built up dossiers, expanded his documentation. His method came down to five steps he never departed from: plotting the route on the map, reading the encyclopaedic literature, listing the monuments and sites along the way, scouting on the ground with a recorder, then writing up the notes.
Apri il capitoloMonsieur Randonnée, prima in radio, poi in televisione
As early as 1975 he was recounting his walks in the Pays des Collines and the Payottenland on "Point de mire", Gérard Valet's programme. Pierre De Greef turned this into a radio series following in Monsieur Randonnée's footsteps, whose success led to the idea of continuing on television.
Apri il capitoloCiò che ha tramandato
There is what is handed down through papers, and what is handed down without anyone noticing. Among the Mahys as among the De Rijcks, two generations later, the same gestures recur: go and see for yourself, take notes, sort, keep.
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Articoli di stampa relativi a questo ritratto e all'eredità familiare di Carl.
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