MEETING - Hosted by: Élodie Karaki - Duration: 1 hour
THE EMPTY HOUSE with Laurent Mauvignier and Marie-Hélène Lafon.
A piano, a chipped marble chest of drawers, a Legion of Honor, a lock of hair, a face missing from a photograph, patiently cut out with scissors.
An empty house, filled with unbroken silences. To understand what happened there, the narrator had to go back in time, immerse himself in rural life in the first half of the twentieth century, and confront the history and shattered destiny of two women: Marie-Ernestine and Marguerite, confronted by the violence of men and two world wars. Accompanied by Marie-Hélène Lafon, Laurent Mauvignier explores this Empty House and returns to the masterful way in which he traced the threads of family history, between authenticity and inventions, to better understand "its shadow cast over ours."
A piano, a chipped marble chest of drawers, a Legion of Honor, a lock of hair, a face missing from a photograph, patiently cut out with scissors.
An empty house, filled with unbroken silences. To understand what happened there, the narrator had to go back in time, immerse himself in rural life in the first half of the twentieth century, and confront the history and shattered destiny of two women: Marie-Ernestine and Marguerite, confronted by the violence of men and two world wars. Accompanied by Marie-Hélène Lafon, Laurent Mauvignier explores this Empty House and returns to the masterful way in which he traced the threads of family history, between authenticity and inventions, to better understand "its shadow cast over ours."
