THE CHRONICLE OF ÉTIENNE DE MONTETY – One day, in a port in Normandy, the narrator sees the silhouette of a little girl passing by who reminds him of Pauline. Then begins the delicate tale of an unfinished dream.
The collection of the publisher Anne Bourguignon, “Larencontre”, always contains short texts chiselled in the gold of emotion and delicacy. It has surprises in store. Pauline or Childhood comes to take its place in the great trail of books that have been half-opened, then read, and which leave behind them scents of melancholy. Poil de Carotte, Oliver Twist, go your way, here the narrator remembers a happy life in the French countryside (Saône-et-Loire): one day, in a port in Normandy, the adult he has become sees the silhouette of a little girl passing by who reminds him, like a ghost coming to visit him, of Pauline: they were the same age and from the same village, in other words the same childhood.
“The road which led to Pauline crossed Romenay.” Here he goes on a pilgrimage. His father worked the elusive and romantic profession of a traveling grocer. Everything changed in the places of his memories, especially since everything was embellished by the eyes of innocence. He remembers his vacation…
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