Special envoy to Lisbon
He is a character à la Cocteau.
Thin and slender, the haughty bearing, the feline gait;
long slender fingers of a pianist, or accordionist, a beret elegantly placed on his oval face;
clear eyes and a childish smile of luminous benevolence.
Some people snap their fingers to get what they want in life;
Michel clicked his heels.
And he became, over the course of an improbable fate, the most famous tap dancer in Portugal;
the father -
"the grandfather",
he smiles - of that "tap dance" popularized on the big screen around the world by Fred Astaire and largely unknown in this region of southern Europe.
Although we can find a distant link to fandango, a traditional Portuguese dance from the Ribatejo region, punctuated by the sound of castanets and the guitar.
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