One can be confined and walk around the Beaubourg Center, Pont des Arts, Île de la Cité, Père-Lachaise, and even meet strangers, chat, listen to them ... Magic of literature. The novelist Fanny Saintenoy offers us a real jewel of 174 pages made up of around twenty short stories devoted to Paris and to Parisians.
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Fanny Saintenoy was responsible for the language learning center at the Cité internationale universitaire before working for the museums of the city of Paris. She has a penchant for tiny lives. Hence this gallery of portraits of extreme sensitivity.
She explains her approach, which consists in getting into the skin of her characters: “ We are the fragile and tenacious inhabitants of Paris. I am a limping man, an overly sensitive child, a music lover, an old lady who is losing her lump, a desperate young woman, an angry teenage girl, a man who returns home on November 13… ”The title of each story is a
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