The waitress speaks Russian.
Menu open in front of him, Jean de Boishue sends him his order in his mother tongue - a dish of the day and a plate of mortadella,
"karacho".
Suddenly, in her voice, the first music of her life resonates and reveals an underground, active identity: “
My mother educated me in the Russian language, in homage to her husband, Prince Mechtcherski, who died around my birth.
She had nothing Russian, however, she was a woman from Saint-Malo, very French, now
tells the 78-year-old man who bears her name, spreading salted butter on a piece of bread.
Until the age of 13 or 14, I stayed with her, without going to school, because I had contracted tuberculous meningitis. ”
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With a breath, he concludes: "
My mother was an extraordinary woman and I have no nostalgia for the idea of my father."
Integrated in extremis into the school system for which he showed little aptitude, Jean was finally received second in the Russian aggregation in 1967 and graduated in
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