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Discover La messe là-bas, the new novel by Sébastien Lapaque

2021-08-11T14:25:17.356Z


EXCLUSIVE - All summer long, an original piece of news from the Figaro Magazine pen. This week it's Sébastien Lapaque's turn.


The bell rang.

In the church, the priest accompanied by his acolytes went up to the altar.

It is so hot this week, the thermometer passed 40 ° C around 10 o'clock.

It is a confusing day, a ceremony full of rites that I have always believed I have known and that suddenly seem mysterious to me.

Earlier, in the noisy commercial street, loudspeakers were broadcasting messages in a language full of vowels.

There were snow-covered fir trees in the windows and Santa Claus waddling along singing

Jingle Bells

to a bossa-nova tune.

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At the top of a palm tree, I observed a parakeet with purple cheeks tinged with azure blue with a beautiful soft green plumage edged with yellow and a black beak.

The more time passes, the more I forget the song of the sparrows.

But not that of the parakeets.

In Paris, birds with shrill cries fly in a squadron above the Grands Boulevards… Kii-ak!

Kii-ak! ...

A friend with a dark soul and

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Source: lefigaro

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