Lecturer at the Sorbonne,
François de Saint-Cheron
has published several works
on Malraux
, whom he met when he was a teenager.
He published
Malraux before Christ
with Desclée de Brouwer.
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LE FIGARO.
- In 1975, you were 17 years old.
Malraux receives you at his home with your brother.
Why did he fascinate you?
FRANCIS DE SAINT-CHERON.
- We discovered him in 1973 through a report on the trip and speech he gave in Bangladesh to celebrate independence.
His magnetic voice, his immense culture which put everything into perspective, the depth of his historical reflection had captivated us.
He was inhabited, there was a breath in him,
“this breath to which nothing really compares
,” said de Gaulle.
When he received us, I was fascinated by his way of thinking out loud, with an originality that perhaps also came from his self-taught background
(Malraux did not have the baccalaureate, Editor's note).
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