In the famous band of hussars, Antoine Blondin did not have the sharp insolence of a Nimier, the polymorphic gifts of a Laurent, the melancholy of travels that held a Déon, and yet, while we commemorate the centenary from his birth, we notice that a few novels and a handful of sports chronicles ensure him a good posterity.
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Of course, who hasn't heard of
A Monkey in Winter
, to which Verneuil and Audiard's film gave considerable repercussions?
Of course, the Blondin style concealed in sentences such as
“One day, we will take trains that are leaving”
or
“And now here comes a long winter”
is that of a writer.
But, the most astonishing, it is probably these chronicles dedicated to the Tour de France.
La Fontaine, taking his part in the humiliation of Superintendent Fouquet, had chosen to indulge in an exercise considered minor: the fable.
Humiliated child of the Occupation, poor Blondin took refuge in sports journalism, convinced that his papers…
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