A Monday in the sun. On Monday, June 2, true to himself, Jean-Marie Gourio took advantage of the reopening of the restaurant terraces to stroll between the tables on the shores of Lake Annecy, where he has lived for several years. There, under the gaze of the summits, this former editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, who publishes the fourth volume of his best-seller, Brèves de comptoir , smelled the air of time as he emerged from the shadow of confinement. With his banter echoing in his desk lined with books, he says: “Despite this newfound freedom, people were silent on the terraces. As if they refused to throw themselves into a social fight. They were cuddly at the bistro, still a little at home, in the silence of confinement. ”
"Brèves de comptoir - Tome IV", by Jean-Marie Gourio, Robert Laffont, 1280 p., 30 €.
Through its hundreds of brief briefs (1,200 in this last opus), this fifties, bear badly licked at first sight, lays the pearls heard in bistros on paper. From a stroke of wit full of common sense to a slightly vulgar aftershock, Gourio
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