It's a story that some might describe as a makrélage. Because how would the general public be concerned by this tumultuous romantic relationship between a man and a woman more than another?
Certainly, the notoriety of the protagonists, Kalash, international star and Ingrid Littré, former Miss World candidate, attracts attention but it is not enough.
The main line of this story tends more to connect the thread of Ingrid Littré's life to that of thousands of women in Martinique. Non-payment of alimony, non-compliance with certain court decisions, recurring conflicts made public around the management of the couple's two daughters are among the subjects covered in the book.
A work which, it must be admitted, only delivers Ingrid Littré's version. Her ex-husband has spoken out several times on social networks in the past about his difficult relationship with the woman who was his wife.
“Resilience”
On Thursday December 12, 2024, Catherine Marceline, former lawyer of Ingrid Littré and now author and editorwas the guest of the show on the page on the eve of the release of the book in digital version.
She summarized her work as follows:
It's the story of a woman who presented herself in a Miss World election, having natural hair styled in locks and who therefore completely breaks the codes by explaining that you can be yourself with natural hair. What seems extremely banal today and which, at the time, in the years, was something completely innovative, insolent and inspiring. She is a woman who breaks these codes and who arrives at an election saying: This is what I am, this is what represents Caribbean beauty and who ranks in 8th position and who then comes back and who is an emblematic model . And she is a woman who will develop a career, who will highlight it and who will decide, a few years later, to put this career on hold, because she is choosing love, but in any case, it was a woman who paved the way. And in this sense, it completely meets the codes of Pilibo [maison d’édition de Catherine Marceline, ndlr]since she is an inspiring woman who paved the way and broke the codes. She is a woman who, then, has a course in resilience because she is going to experience quite difficult things.
And the author emphasizes the resilience of her former client:
She will be, what I call today, an absolutely resilient woman through what she will have experienced as a wife, because putting her own career, her own ambitions aside to devote herself to those of someone on the other, it is not always obvious and this is what many women experience. And subsequently, to be able to experience what she experienced with the violence that we describe, that I describe in this book, violence that is combined in multiple ways. And if we are truly talking about shame, shame must change sides. We are completely talking about domestic violence and I fully accept the expression of domestic violence when I talk about Ingrid Littré
A mandatory debate
If the style of the book divides because the writing is sometimes marked by multiple repetitions, sometimes by a narrative bordering on the minutes, it nevertheless opens a debate which Martinican society undoubtedly cannot do without.
Whether it is the vision and perception of women and mothers by an eminently misogynistic specter, whether it is the view we have of men and fathers of through which the requirements regarding their responsibilities remain low, this confrontation of reflections is necessary.
That it is done through personalities who occupy our social networks and sometimes use them as a weapon also contributes to the reading of our times.
For those who in any case want to form an opinion, Catherine Marceline's book is coming out in paper version this Saturday, December 21, 2024.
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