{"id":367,"date":"2015-08-04T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T10:48:51","slug":"leon-damour-pour-son-film-la-foret-engloutie-il-y-a-100-millions-dannees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e9on Damour pour son film La for\u00eat engloutie il y a 100 millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"textgras\">Rapport Didier N\u00e9raudeau<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charentais maritime d\u2019origine, L\u00e9on Damour est n\u00e9 en 1931 \u00e0 Cramchaban, dans une famille d\u2019agriculteurs, propri\u00e9taires et exploitants. Il a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 la chimie agricole \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Poitiers, avant d\u2019integrer, \u00e0 Paris, l\u2019Institut Technique des Pratiques Agricoles. Des 1959, \u00e0 la Direction des Services Agricoles de La Rochelle, il est\u00ab conseiller marais \u00bb et responsable du Laboratoire d\u2019Analyse des Sols. En 1964, il int\u00e9gre le corps des ing\u00e9nieurs agronomes et entre \u00e0 l\u2019INRA qui vient d\u2019acqu\u00e9rir une exploitation de marais pr\u00e8s de Fouras, \u00e0 Saint-Laurent-de-la-Pr\u00e9e. Le domaine est charg\u00e9 de r\u00e9aliser l\u2019inventaire des types de prairies, de cartographier les sols des marais et leur suivi floristique en fonction de leur utilisation. Parall\u00e8lement, il doit mettre en place un dispositif exp\u00e9rimental pour d\u00e9terminer les possibilit\u00e9s de drainage et de production agricole des marais. Dans ce cadre professionnel, L\u00e9on Damour devait instaurer et conserver un \u00e9quilibre entre recherche et d\u00e9veloppement.<br \/>\nMais c\u2019est pour une toute autre activit\u00e9 que l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie de Saintonge souhaite saluer cet ing\u00e9nieur agronome. Depuis plusieurs ann\u00e9es, L\u00e9on Damour r\u00e9alise des documentaires tour \u00e0 tour naturalistes, culturels, historiques, voire ethnographiques. Il a ainsi d\u00e9di\u00e9 un film aux <em>Fleurs des Jardins,<\/em> au <em>Terroir de Vendange,<\/em> aux <em>Vieux m\u00e9tiers agricoles,<\/em> \u00e0 la <em>Transhumance<\/em>. Surtout, il s\u2019est int\u00e9ress\u00e9 \u00e0 la pal\u00e9ontologie avec ses complices Eric D\u00e9pr\u00e9 et Pierre Miramand. Il a ainsi r\u00e9alis\u00e9 un film <em>Sur les pas d\u2019Alcide d\u2019Orbigny,<\/em> le p\u00e8re de la pal\u00e9ontologie fran\u00e7aise, et enfin ce documentaire passionnant <em>A la recherche de la for\u00eat engloutie il y a 100 millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es,<\/em> dont on retrouve les traces merveilleusement conserv\u00e9es entre l\u2019ile d\u2019Aix et Angoul\u00eame, film qui lui vaut aujourd\u2019hui le Prix de la Mer\/Aquarium de La Rochelle d\u00e9cern\u00e9 par l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie de Saintonge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapport Didier N\u00e9raudeau &nbsp; Charentais maritime d\u2019origine, L\u00e9on Damour est n\u00e9 en 1931 \u00e0 Cramchaban, dans une famille d\u2019agriculteurs, propri\u00e9taires et exploitants. Il a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-palmares-2004"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academie-saintonge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}