“We tell him no, he insists. This little one has no self-respect."
We've been chatting with Pascal Houzelot for more than an hour, under the gaze of his dog, a French bulldog with a sinister mouth.
We found her at a table in her husband's restaurant in Paris, a few meters from the Sainte-Clotilde church.
For an hour we listen to him talk about his accelerated flow, regularly interrupted by the cascades of message notifications from his mobile phone and, all of a sudden, his face lights up.
He finally remembers the sentence that his mother often repeated to him when he was a child…
“This little one has no self-esteem…”
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No self-esteem?
No, he does not agree, he assures him, he has some, but above all he has ambitions.
He always wanted to
"become someone"
.
Someone who matters.
Who stands out.
And it's true, he, the former dyslexic, dysorthographic and complexed child, who feared to pass for a dunce, did everything to achieve it.
With unparalleled nerve.
A…
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