May 25, 1906. An unusual crowd throngs to the doors of the Bordeaux courthouse, all the good society, with a large proportion of women dressed as if to go to the theater, hats and fans, which is not common for a trial. seat.
Among these elegant exhilarators, a young man slipped, almost a teenager, with a long silhouette, dreamy, a little sad.
François Mauriac is 20 years old.
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Like everyone else in the Gironde, he heard about the affair that has hit the headlines of salons and back-shops for over a year, even before it officially broke out with a complaint against X in June 1905. But what attracts this student of letters, who has no taste for scandal, in this arena where bourgeois women flock to attend the trial of one of theirs, accused of having tried to poison her? husband?
Mauriac explained this twenty years later, by writing
Thérèse Desqueyroux
, whose heroine was inspired by the woman on trial that day,
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