| Marie-Hélène Miauton: «Man was created to admire nature».»

One of the few right-wing figures on the intellectual scene in French-speaking Switzerland devotes a book of photographs and reflections to his walk along the southern Via Francigena, from Rome to the tip of the Italian boot, following a first volume devoted to the northern Via.

If there's one regular contributor to the daily Le Temps who stands out from the crowd of outside columnists, it's her. And that's enough to make retired entrepreneur Marie-Hélène Miauton, author of a dozen books, an important and valuable player in public debate in French-speaking Switzerland. Elegant, thoughtful, audacious: these are just a few of the adjectives that immediately spring to mind when speaking of her, and which sum up just about everything that is lost in the contemporary version of the life of ideas and life itself. These adjectives are confirmed by this exchange in Lausanne about her walk in