3 WOMEN, 3 TIMES (1/3) – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow… Writer Colombe Schneck had fun imagining the daily lives of three fictional working girls anchored in their own time. Colorful stories and portraits that speak of both intimacy and community. To be continued: Christine’s Day 1983
Luxury to show off your prestige
On this late afternoon of May 27, 1983, Christine, who never misses a beat ApostrophesThe Antenne 2 literary program broadcast on Friday evening is excited, the topic is announced. The Paris Daily he is especially interested. “Intellectuals who face the history of communism. » This looks bloody. When François Mitterrand’s Socialists announced that they were associating with Georges Marché’s Communists, he did not hesitate, campaigning and voting for the VGE in the 1981 presidential election. These communists who approved the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union in 1979. , took the risk to go to the government, which happened two years later, he was furious, very worried. He cannot come to terms with the idea that they are harmless, even if this “socialism” lasted only two years in France. The “turn of austerity” put an end to certain gossip, and he appreciates Mitterrand’s culture, the charm and demeanor of his young culture minister, Jack Lang.
She’s a historian, a professor at Sciences Po, she’s the only woman to hold office, she’s both proud of it, in a way, she’s quite happy to be the only one. The teachers are very, very kind to him, everyone reads Set freeplace it prominently in front of them as if its red logo were a fashion accessory, but at the beginning of each weekly meeting it is the chairperson who asks him to pour the coffee and take notes that will be useful to the department. a secretary who will type up the report on her typewriter and copy it for everyone.
He lives on the left bank, in Paris, is a client of Yves Saint Laurent, twice a year, he goes to a boutique on rue Tournon, buys silk shirts with officer’s collars, buttoned skirts, elegance is a means of expression for him. a reputation he finds so hard to claim. She is a feminist and feels lonely at times, doesn’t recognize herself in certain excesses, would like more dialogue, and wonders how she might one day say no, she’s not going to serve coffee or write at their dictation because; she is above all a woman, she is a professor, she was the second in the aggregation and received a doctorate degree with the congratulations of the jury.
Christine in 1983, according to Colombe Schneck. Louison illustration
Christine’s self-destruction
He was in Avignon in the morning for a conference, he was able to return the same day on the TGV, the first time he had taken this high-speed train since it opened. He enjoyed the three-and-a-half-hour journey, the comfort of orange upholstered armchairs designed by designer Roger Tallon, munching on his TGV toast at the train bar, a slice of Poilâne bread sliced alternately with St Môret and Bayonne ham, he listened to music for part of the journey thanks to his Thanks to Sony walkman, cassette tapes. Thriller, by Michael Jackson, recommended by Vidal record store, insert Saint-Germain-des-Prés. He also bought a comic on Fnac. This is a first, she never reads comics, but her friend recommended it to her with a smile the click From Manara. “It will do you good. He didn’t understand why while reading. A bourgeois Italian woman, married to a boring man, experiences a remote orgasm thanks to an electronic device.
What excites her more than this Friday orgasm trigger story is her TV night, apostrophes, then Cinema club By Claude-Jean Philippe. Among the guests is the Italian Maria Antonietta Maciocchi, the passion of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the lover of Mao, the author of the bestseller, From China. For over twenty years, this so-called feminist has been spouting nonsense that has the gift of infuriating her.
It is normal for fools to utter foolish things, just as an apple tree bears apples.
Christine, the hero of Colombe Snail’s story
The other guest is Simon Leys, this great historian who was kicked out of French universities because he denounced the Chinese president’s one-by-one and extermination policy. It’s cold and wet outside, she’s wearing her purple velvet nightgown from Sonia Rykiel, she knows Lace’s humor, her dead side, she won’t be disappointed. The Italian begins, Christine recognizes the brand of his shirt and jacket, Saint Laurent, as she does. He now understands why Macciocchi is convinced that Chinese workers are not demanding higher wages and are rejecting unions. It is to offer their “protector” silk shirts. Christine witnesses her self-destruction, she becomes tangled in pieces of paper, then it’s the turn of host Bernard Pivot, his friendly smile addressing Lacey. “Well, what do you think? »
He goes there calmly. Cultural revolution. » Christine hears the audience jeers from the screen.
The day after the broadcast, sales of Maria Antonietta Macchiocchi’s book collapsed. That evening, what was left of Communism’s reputation among Christine’s colleagues was almost destroyed. He misses to celebrate movie club goes to Saint-Germain Drugstore and treats himself to one of those new plastic watches, smooth, Swiss-made, and inexpensive, the Swatch and the Hawaiian croc, croc-monsieur, with a slice of pineapple on it. The victory of capitalism made him hungry.
Source: Le Figaro
