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Six days in the life of Claude Monet. January 1893, he is 52 years old, he has been living in Giverny (Eure) for ten years with his two sons and the six children of his second wife. He will soon have finished with the Rouen Cathedral. He organizes his garden and joins his "mauve poplars" by boat. July 1926: the old painter is still in his studio, when the Water Lilies panels reach the Orangerie, he will be dead. Between these two dates, the novelist is on first-name terms with Monet while accompanying his work, the canvases he throws into the fire, his race with time and the fear of blindness. She keeps the whole household going, the domestic organization in the service of the master, the care taken with meals. We travel to London and Venice, we attend the visits of Matisse and Marquet, the friendship of Clemenceau is not lacking. The documentation is precise, and the author brings it to life with great strength and empathy. Cl.D.

Peihn, a mute teenager by choice, daydreams on rooftops, observing the stars, far from the din of the world. Haunted since childhood by a pain whose cause he ignores, he adopts provocative behaviors that frequently bring him before the courts. His encounters with Artorius Wesley, a benevolent judge, Muskaan, a young Indian woman in search of freedom, Adélaïde, a psychologist, and Joyce, a soul artist, will gradually help him to build himself differently and to understand that what his mother hides from him is not necessarily a lie.