How many times has Véronique Monguillot repeated "
I will remember this all my life
"?
For
Le Figaro
, the widow of Frédéric Monguillot, a Bayonne bus driver killed on July 5, 2020 in a violent attack, summons her memories.
With a hint of a Gascon accent, she stages her husband, her couple, her family.
She describes a life of work and simple happiness, which makes the tragedy all the more upsetting.
The story begins in the Basque Country, where Philippe was born in 1961, before becoming the head of the family at the age of 14 when his father died.
He became an international bus driver, then joined the local public transport company, STAB, in 1990. Véronique, six years younger, worked in a bakery, and spent the rest of the day going up and down the hills of Biarritz-Anglet -Bayonne on his motorcycle.
They meet in March 1993. She notices him, checks the plans and bus schedules to find him, sets up romantic schemes to meet him in...
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