“I'm bad at men, even if I love them,”
slips the portraitist Virginie Bloch-Lainé in the first pages of the story which she devotes, we believe wrongly, to Jean-Michel, her father.
Passionate about pranks and tricks, in addition to having been a
“Finance inspector, entered and left second in the ENA in the early 1960s, son and grandson of Finance inspectors”
.
Died in July 2017
“after a decade of various
cancers
, he was attentive to others and made a point of overlooking their faults, even the biggest”
.
A cross between Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant and the bald supporting actor André Pousse, Jean-Michel is the
“funniest, most radiant, yet most discreet”
being that the narrator has met.
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Mazette, we say to ourselves.
Is Lost Profiles
a paternal hagiography?
These odes to the absent father flourish.
Sung by Victor Hugo, the model of the
“hero with such a sweet smile”
provides a plethora of loving little girls who have become adults…
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