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This article explores how authenticity is produced by tourist guides and how in return it shapes the impressions of tourists. Furthermore, it addresses the identity ambivalences linked to tourism. The study therefore underlines the guides' various attitudes, from the use of oriental stereotypes in Fez, to the attempt to change tourists' representations and to propose other interpretations of authenticity in Istanbul. In this context, handicraft appears as an ambiguous figure of the mise-en-scene of authenticity. In both cases however, the imaginary promoted by the guide does not merge completely with the lived experience of tourists, based on a variety of emotions.
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Cyril Simard was born in Baie Saint-Paul, Québec, in 1938. His parents and early mentors had a lasting influence on his career : he was introduced to the field of commerce by his father, and to handcrafts by his mother ; he learned music from the Reverend Ernest Veilleux and drawing from painter René Richard, while his appreciation for museums and writing came from Mgr Félix-Antoine Savard. He became an architect specializing in crafts and design during the 1960s. There are many aspects to Cyril Simard's career : university teaching and professional architecture, crafts council administration, spreading knowledge through television and books, initiating and managing projects through the Québec civil service, and creating both the concept and the network of « économusées ». This article presents several excerpts from an extended interview. The text makes up a kind of quilt in twelve sections.