“France's position on Russia will sooner or later pay off”: Darius Rochebin's opinion on Macron's strategy with Putin. “We didn't even sign a contract, she told me: 'we work first, and we will be paid later'” “She is so cheerful and has such optimism about her own life and about the world,” says the author of War and Grace with Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.