Through this book, Jean-Pierre Gilson delivers his poetic vision of a city whose powerful historical past is present in every stone.

With a very personal intuition of light, he paints a sensitive portrait of the Compiégnois.

These photographs by a die-hard dawn fan reveal a disturbing atmosphere: foliage frozen in the morning frost, the first bursts of sunlight in the forest, deserted landscapes in the mist from which one would not be surprised to see some supernatural creature escaping.