Especially when so many road separates your roots

A height worthy of a sovereign Department ceiling, a chandelier Crystal to fade to feel like the Queen of England, dark panelling on the walls, books Golden on slice in the library, a table and armchairs of style Empire... "I want to keep the feet on Earth, prevents Guy Vasseur. In an Office like this, it is quickly disconnected. "On the first floor of the mansion of avenue George-V which was once home to a rich marquise and now houses the Chambers of agriculture (Apca) Permanent Assembly, the new master of the premises is aware that the"peasant sense"and the knowledge of the land remained its most faithful allies. And that the best way to know where it is going is to never forget where you came from. Especially when so many road separates your roots.

A Rabelaisian figure

Hers are located in a small village in the wine-growing Sologne 20 km from Blois where the same farm saw him be born, grow and work. When Guy Vasseur spoke you of Sambin and war acrimonious between "red" and "white" which was raging in his youth, one would think is a little movie of Don Camillo. The man, indeed, is no shortage of humor: under apparent austerity, the facetious drills quickly and salt and pepper beard carefully carved - less "unions correct" than the famous necklace of his predecessor Luc Guyau s ' clarifies often of a malicious smile. Lover of good food and a member of the brotherhood of the major Rabelaisian entonneurs, this false serious burns its supernumerary bike calories, although there has long been abandoned all hope to follow the France Tower other than behind his television or radio station. It happened to him, once again, to combine the pleasures of the table to those of the great loop, lunch with his God, Jacques Anquetil. One of the more moved memories...

When he dreamed not of to illustrate in a v-watch, the young Guy was well become a doctor, lawyer or human poli-tick. Fate has decided otherwise, even if it is now regional adviser UMP of the Centre. The College, that he left before the hour, one rural family homes, military service "in the full Bush, Orléans" and agricultural technicians training centre. At its inception, he brings his father's farm and that of an uncle in a single operation totalling some 60 hectares. It account now double, with in its elevators a wide range of grain crops: wheat, barley, oats, rapeseed, sunflower and even a bit of millet. From the outset, his life of farmer double from another: that of an elected official in the service of his profession. President of the young farmers of Loir-et-Cher in 1978, he expands its perimeter in the Centre two years later and at the same time became the missi dominici of the CNJA in Brussels. European issues, he will take six years, at a time where put in place the single market and the milk quotas, passionneront.

The CAP, or rather its "health check" and its future to the year 2013, was again in the heart of its action as Vice-President of ACAP. After twelve years at the head of the commission environment, that it will be used to deliver the Government of the Act on the water of December 30, 2006, Guy Vasseur has before it the economic issues in 2007. Key post by days.