Samivel Testimonials

Jean Malaurie Emeritus Research Director CNRS, Director of the Centre of Arctic Studies EHESS.
A true individual: he was a man with an enquiring mind who accomplished his objectives through his films and books on Egypt and great civilisations.
He was a meditative, a spiritualist.

Paul Emile Victor Explorer, ethnologist.
Samivel, a wonderful watercolour painter and poet.
I believe essentially a Poet.    
  
Henri Bosco recounts

Alain Bombard Former Minister - Doctor - Adventurer
I think that he was a true philosopher of the summits.
What impressive knowledge he acquired on Egypt...not just specialist scientific material, but also familiarization, through his films and conferences he knew how to place poetry at the door of the public. testimonial

Michel Tournier Author
No one better than Samivel depicts the padded layer of snow lying on branches of pine trees, the bluish background of an alpine horizon, the threat of a stormy sky, the mauve mist rising from a stream.
Such a deep peace emanated from his landscapes that one would love to live night and day in their radiance.

Maurice Baquet Mountain musician.
Discreet and solitary the nonchalant Samivel was always ready to devote himself to a good cause.
He lived in our time with elegance, a perceptive eye and his sharpened pencil; leaving behind him, for our enjoyment, inimitable traces of his black and white drawings.

José Giovanni Filmmaker Author
Samivel ? certainly... a great mountaineer, author, artist, humorist. A man who has left us, I'd say, a wide ranging artistic record in the universe of the mountain.

Michelle Tourneur Author
"Samivel, I think of him as a pilgrim of the land, as one who has undertaken a quest in the dimension of his life,  that is to say very large and in the dimension of the universe. For me Samivel is truly the symbol of the author with a capital A, he's a medium, someone who crosses the world like a sort of meteorite and who reveals his inner thoughts to each and everyone of us."