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Discover Playa larga, Cuba, April 10, 2022, the unpublished news of François-Henri Désrable

2021-11-19T06:03:32.417Z


EXCLUSIVE - Each week, Le Figaro Magazine publishes an unpublished short story from a writer. It's François-Henri Désrable's turn.


It hadn't hit him right away, he hadn't noticed until later, but there was no man in Playa Larga: women, children, but not a single man.

Michel and his wife had left Havana in the early morning, a turquoise blue Chevrolet had dropped them off at Playa Larga, in the Bay of Pigs, around noon, and it was on foot that they had followed the only road to village, looking, Michel said, for a place to peck.

"Tourism is the industry of transporting people who would be better off at home, to places that would be better without them"

: Michel no longer remembered where he had read it, that sentence, or even, to tell the truth, to whom we owed it, but he was not far from thinking the same thing: it pissed him off a lot of be there, seated in a tavern in Playa Larga, in front of his papas fritas and his lobster, on this Sunday, April 10, 2022 when the French were called to vote in the first round of the presidential election.

It would be wrong to

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Source: lefigaro

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