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Throughout
the ages, the Marquesas have inspired
painters, poets, singers and writers,
such as Jacques Brel, Paul Gauguin,
Pierre Loti, V. Segalen and H. Melville.
They
have recorded in song and on canvas those
now famous standards of beauty, such as
the smiling faces of the children leaving
school, mysterious women sitting on
church pews, mute sculptors.
They
have captured the dense forests, the
majestic waterfalls, a horde of wild
horses on a deserted plateau, violent and
rocky coast, a bay which is a haven of
peace, majestic and twisted peaks, a
woman sculpting at night on the beach.
The
Marquesas are a peak, a beach, a bay,
horses, a sculptor, a tattoo, a tiki, a
bird or a light… a moment, a minute or
a life.
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