Franche-Comté. At 14, this young man from Doubien recorded the sound of Franche-Comté bells for posterity.
Demba Hane will only celebrate his fifteenth birthday in a few days. Yet, for over a year, the Pontarlier native has been scouring the churches, especially rural ones, of his department. Fascinated by the music of the beautiful bells, small or large, of the Franche-Comté churches, he immortalizes their sounds. All intriguing, all different. He lists them on his website and accompanies them with historical and technical explanations. A surprising ode to a rich heritage in peril.
That morning, curled up in his bed, at the hour when the countryside, in this case that of Saint-Hippolyte , a cheerful town of character in the Doubs, turns white, Demba Hane had a revelation. While on vacation at his grandmother's, who lives opposite the church, he was woken by the 7 a.m. Angelus. "I was pleasantly surprised," recalls today the young resident of Pontarlier, who will celebrate...
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