She has it all in her head: her shopping list, her appointments for the week, the phone numbers of her five children, the door code, the names of the kings of France in order, and a host of memories. . These are hierarchical, tidy, calmed
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they furnish the rooms of its inner citadel.
"To remind myself of our historical chronology, for example, I imagine the monarchs in the rooms of the house of my childhood"
, smiles Anne de Pomereu, whose ancestors lived in a Norman domain, in the country of Maupassant.
"This way of organizing mental images is inherited from our oral tradition, it does not allow brushes to mix."
In Paris, she invented the antidote to what is called "captology", by becoming an expert in the art of protecting the intellectual faculties, of preventing their capture.
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