“Lucernaire, hello!”
This first line, she knows it by heart.
Celine Ena has been repeating it for twenty-eight years when she picks up the phone from this Parisian theatre-cinema.
Even when she is called for an interview, her role as teller sticks to her skin.
“Excuse me for a moment… So ma'am, it's room 3 downstairs.
Yes, so you were telling me?
For all these years, she has seen people pass in front of her ticket office on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs.
So much so that she decided to make a collection of comic strips with the obvious title:
Lucernaire Bonjour!
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“At first, it was just to make colleagues laugh during confinement
,” says the self-taught modestly.
But among the collaborators who receive his comic drawings is a certain Xavier Pryen.
Manager of Lucernaire, he is also the director of the publishing house L'Harmattan.
"He said to me: 'If you have 40 boards, we can make a collection of them,'"
recalls Céline Ena.
And stories, she had them.
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