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Vanessa Schneider, in the mind of a terrorist

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Vanessa Schneider publishes her novel "La fille de Deauville" published by Grasset editions.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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After her last novel

Your name was Maria Schneider 

, which returned to the tragic fate of her cousin, the actress Maria Schneider, the journalist and novelist Vanessa Schneider is now interested in the hunt for Direct Action, the armed struggle group far left.

She takes us inside the head of the terrorist: Joëlle Aubron.

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We first know

Vanessa Schneider

as a journalist, today a major reporter for the daily

Le Monde

after

Liberation, Marianne

or the CAPA agency.

But she is also a novelist.

After two first autobiographical novels, Vanessa Schneider told us about the destinies of several extraordinary women: her cousin Maria Schneider – actress traumatized by the filming of Bernardo Bertolucci's film

Last Tango in Paris,

Jeanne, a modern heroine facing a breakup , or those called the "Virgins of Gloucester" after a strange news item.

His latest novel is also based on reality.

This time, he takes us inside the head of a terrorist: Joëlle Aubron.

Figure of the armed struggle of a far-left terrorist group in the 80s: Action Directe, responsible among other things for the assassination of the CEO of Renault Georges Besse and General René Audran.

La fille de Deauville

 is a novel published by Grasset.

Report:

 direction Abidjan in Ivory Coast where the 3rd edition of the Dycoco festival took place all last week.

Bappa Oumar and Mister Keke, Guinean and Gabonese comedians, won the "My First Montreux" competition.

They will be able to perform at the famous comedy festival in Switzerland where African artists are increasingly popular with the public.

The report by

François Hume-Ferkatadji

.

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