Death of Maryse Condé: the name of the writer will continue to resonate in Val-d'Oise. The Guadeloupean writer, with several dozen works, died during the night from Monday to Tuesday at the age of 90.

“Hearing these young people tell me that they have read and loved my books, that they are taking up my fights. It's beautiful, a movement of fire. I almost cried,” the wheelchair-bound novelist whispered to the Parisian.