Lucien Gachon

Lucien Gachon, an Auvergnat, peasant, teacher then professor, geographer and writer. He co-wrote, with Henri Pourrat, this sublime sentence about Auvergne: “In the beginning God created Auvergne and then nothing, nothing, nothing and then all the rest of the world. »Born in 1894 in the domain of La Guillerie located near the Chapelle-Agnon in the Puy de Dôme, he is the author, among other things, of the magnificent novel Maria which came close to the Goncourt prize in 1925.