"In a novel, the most difficult is to make gray," writes Louis Aragon in Aurélien . Gray, everyday life, monotonous, ordinary, where nothing happens. The one that the confinement has thickened, frozen. For two months, the couples were subjected to him, without outside distraction. The test promised to reveal their solidity. Woe to the confined lovebirds who would quarrel or to those who, distant, would not miss each other. It would mean something annoying. The spike in divorce seen in Wuhan, China after the confinement served as a warning.
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From mid-March to mid-April, in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), Élise and Giacinto, 37 and 39, argued every other day, under the eyes of Paolo, their son of 2 years. "We had never observed such a rhythm of shouting," remembers the gentleman. "We were getting on our nerves," remembers Madame. In mid-March, when the nanny is no longer authorized to take the child into her home, Élise is on sick leave, struck down
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