Historically brings together 3 duos of letter-writing lovers: "The Tiger" Georges Clemenceau who showed himself as gentle as a lamb with Marguerite Baldensperger, an editor 40 years his junior with whom he had a relationship of 6 years and some 668 letters.
Then, other letters, other words: those exchanged between two feathers, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
Two women, each married to a man, who love each other in the England of the 1920s who did not really like it ... And a more succinct letter-writing love of which only one letter was found, that of the break-up , which the famous rapper Tupac wrote to his girlfriend at the time, a certain Madonna ...
Guests:
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Nathalie Saint-Cricq
, political editor at France Télévisions.
Author of the book
I will help you live, you will help me die
(Editions de l'Observatoire).
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Christine Orban
, writer and playwright.
Author of
Virginia and Vita
published by Editions Albin Michel, and republished in Livre de Poche.