2023-04-23 21:46:09
Would you like to dine in Meudon at Lucette’s? Badly seated on sofas that are too low, but surrounded by Françoise Hardy, Carla Bruni, 2Be3, TV stars, comedians and well-known writers. Everyone comes to bathe in the memories of a woman who describes Paris under the Occupation, Otto Abetz, Sigmaringen, Roger Nimier, Arletty, Marcel Aymé, but above all Louis, her Louis. Lucette Destouches, née Almansor, is the widow of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Died in 2019 at the age of 107, she received on the spur of the moment for dinners that were never sad. François Gibault, biographer and executor of the writer, sends out the invitations and guides the “newbies” to the gate which marks the entrance to a house in poor condition. There are no photos of these dinners and few guests agree to sit down to eat. Sébastien Le Fol has reconstructed the menu, the rites and the ballet of the faithful.
Literature produces beautiful stories and invents extraordinary destinies. But all does not end in conviviality. Gérard LHéritier was the king of Paris. This businessman founded the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts as well as Aristophil, a company that bought and sold books and documents written by the hand of the best authors. In the 2010s, his collection was considered the largest and most valuable in the world. Yes, but… here he is ruined, discredited, dragged before the courts, accused of a thousand evils, his treasures sold for a fraction of their supposed value. A barely believable story, told by Jérôme Dupuis, where “stars” who care little regarding the origin of the gifts they received and a mysterious EuroMillions winning ticket mingle.
You will also read the prose of Nicolas Bedos. His singularity sets him apart from his contemporaries. The 40-year-old feels cramped in a ready-to-think society where deviations in morals, language and behavior have become mortal sins. The ethical and political confinement in which we lock ourselves up without shouting or gnashing of teeth weighs on him. He made it into (good) news in which irony vies with despair; weariness gives way to resistance.
Another exercise in style and imagination, Sophie Fontanel makes our fashion series speak. She invents dialogues, stories, authors, titles and editors to make the shock of her words sound with the weight of our photos. Sketches of everyday life that show that poetry is around the corner and that you should never despair of anything.
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