By taking these photographs throughout these four years, I remembered the society’s qualities: qualities I had believed to be lost in the din of our modern cities.

“It is necessary to change everything so that nothing changes,” on the contrary, it is perhaps necessary to change nothing in order to develop a future that resembles us, without losing our core.

We can and we must challenge our way of living! It must be done, however, without losing sight of what, throughout the centuries, has created our wealth and our originality. Why is this distinctiveness not expressed with more convivial feeling? Friendship, hospitality, respect and love of others; they are as persuasive as hatred and violence but so much nobler.

All these smiles, these handshakes and this humanity that I wanted to show throughout these pages, this is also the Corsica of today, the Corsica that we love and are proud of, which will perhaps enable us to pass the difficult course of this permanent challenge.

To go to the procession in your village is to follow in the footsteps of your ancestors, is to enthusiastically commune with your neighbours and friends, is to continue to weave the capricious threads of life.