33,280 color slides, 23,076 black and white negatives: it is with this concise list that one of the hundreds of pages of the diary kept by Madeleine de Sinéty could have begun. The quality of his relationship with the people photographed, the theater of their gestures, the intimacy, the richness and the diversity of the encounters made in Poilley, a small village 60 kilometers north of Rennes, overflow on all sides from the enormous accumulation of images. Born in 1934, the photographer lived in Poilley from 1972 to 1982. She subsequently made numerous trips there from the United States, where she had established her residence. Having died in 2011, she did not have time to organize this archive herself. Only black and white was partially revealed during an exhibition at the BNF and another at the Museum of Art in Portland. It was therefore without her, with Peter, her son, that we took possession of the collection of color images and tried, as humbly and as faithfully as possible, to highlight her enterprise, which is neither that of a photographer responding to a commission, nor that of an anthropologist - but the enterprise of living as an artist sharing the life of a close-knit community, of a rural microcosm in full change on the edge of modernity.