The novelist and screenwriter whose novel Postcard crowned by high school students Renaudeau and the first edition of Goncourt’s American version tells us of a Christmas unlike any in his family. Fun and crunchy.
All families have their legends, these stories that we tell from generation to generation that are imprinted in us when we are children. Then one day we ourselves pass them on to our children. These legends have a small part of truth and a large part of imagination. This is how my dad’s family told this funny Christmas story.
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Maryvonne, the great-grandmother, was a woman of character. A true Breton from Finisterre. One Christmas evening, she received a gift from her husband. The present was waiting under the tree, well-wrapped, and Maryvon was happy to open the paper to discover the object hidden there. The gift was bulky and had a shape that made it difficult to guess what it was. Maryvon carefully opened the package. it was a time when gift wrapping wasn’t thrown away, carefully kept in a drawer for reuse next to bits of twine.” “But what the hell?” Maryvon asked her husband. , when detecting the object.
“It’s garbage on the table,” he answered, proud of himself.
Maryvon was stunned by the object.
– Table trash.
– Yes. But this isn’t just any tabletop trash can. Look at the label, it’s an unbreakable tabletop bin.
The next day, at Christmas dinner, Maryvonna remained silent in front of the new trash can at the end of the table. When it was time for dessert, she got up and went to get something from the kitchen. And while everyone was finishing their conversations, he came back with the hammer in hand… and smashed the trash can into a thousand pieces.
“Jean, you were fooled, it wasn’t unbreakable,” she told her husband simply before sitting down again.
This is how the story that I told in one of my novels ends. I learned different lessons from it. the women of the family know how to use a hammer. you shouldn’t trust the labels. and, what is most important, if any evil is presented as a gift, no one is obliged to accept it.
Source: Le Figaro
