Literature: Mathias Malzieu: "The war, the father and filiation"

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Mathias Malzieu, singer of the Dionysos group and author of "The Porcelain Warrior" with Albin Michel.

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By: Chantal Lorho Follow

In June 1944, Mathias' father, nine-year-old Mainou, had just lost his mother, who died in childbirth.

We decide to send him, hidden in a hay cart, across the demarcation line, to his grandmother who has a farm in Lorraine.

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It is these last months of war, seen at the height of a child, that Mathias Malzieu brings back to life, mixing his voice with that of his father ...

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