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“ La voix des gens se change jamais, pas davantage que l'expression de leur regard. Au milieu de l’effondrement physique généralisé à quoi se résume la vieillesse, la voix et le regard apportent le témoignage douloureusement irrécusable de la persistance du caractère, des aspirations, des désirs, de tout ce qui constitue une personnalité humaine.”

Oh, to be the translator who thinks photographie argentique means moneymaking photography yet corrects author's original English sentences because they don't sound correct in English

I like his approach to certain topics and his style, although it has many inside references specific to French national identity and the upper class. Why are Germans so obsessed with him? Is it because he tickles their non-existent sense of humour or because they like reading an unreserved French guy who isn’t afraid to say the controversial things they only dream of?