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Paris, boulevard Voltaire/Ponts

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"Sur le boulevard Voltaire, il y a des constructions, des actions, des objets, lacrymos, baïonnettes, banderoles, canons, mégaphones, affiches, choses, bidules, films, flippers, clous, enseignes, foulards, tracts, drapeaux, guillotines, huîtres, autobus, et surtout des femmes et des hommes, cantinières, rapatriés, maraîchers, gardes, casquettiers, patrons, ébénistes, déportés, charpentiers, blanchisseuses, plombiers, empereurs, enfants, institutrices, poètes, rois, soldats, policiers, pompiers, concierges, fous, couturières, grisettes, artisans, otages, fusillés, ouvriers, ivrognes, et même des lions." Pour écrire leurs histoires, Michèle Audin s'est arrêtée à quatorze adresses du boulevard. Lieux de drames, de révoltes, et également de souvenirs personnels et intimes dont elle retrouve, par le travail de l'écriture, l'impalpable intensité. Autre traversée, ce récit est suivi de trente-cinq poèmes, chacun consacré à un des ponts qui permettent de franchir la Seine à Paris.

160 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2023

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Michèle Audin

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Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, and a professor at l'Institut de recherche mathématique avancée (IRMA) in Strasbourg, where she does research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.

Born in 1954, she is a former student of l'École normale supérieure de jeunes filles within the École normale supérieure Sèvres. She became a member of l'Oulipo in 2009.

She is the daughter of mathematician Maurice Audin, who died under torture in 1957 in Algeria, after having been arrested by parachutists of General Jacques Massu. On January 1, 2009, she refused to receive the Legion of Honour, on the grounds that the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, had refused to respond to a letter written by her mother regarding the disappearance of her father.

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