There are encounters from which you emerge enchanted.
No rational explanations.
No doubt through her words, her smile, the energy she exudes, Clémentine Dabadie makes you want to see the glass half overflowing.
It is rare to see a person who does not “bring them back”, when everything should encourage them to do so.
The first time we met her was at the writing workshops of
Le Figaro littéraire
, led by Karina Hocine, then director of Éditions JC Lattès, now general secretary and publisher of Gallimard.
We were surprised to see the daughter of Jean-Loup Dabadie and Geneviève Dormann, great names in the republic of letters, mingle with budding authors, studiously listening to the advice of Karina Hocine, then those of Irène Frain for a second workshop, and applying himself to handing in his work.
We will be all the more surprised when we learn that Clémentine Dabadie, a teenager, played a game of doubles tennis with Philip Roth;
that she spent a summer...
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