In “Merci Paris”, the novelist and filmmaker Gérard Mordillat summoned girlfriends and fellow writers for a Parisian trip, all in love with their neighborhood and who have the delicacy not to be cynical with Paris. To each his favorite districtfor Mordillat, nothing beats the 20th.
Mordillat and his band tell Paris and they all wonder where they come from? And I’m from Batignolles, you from Pigalle, she from Javel and her cousin from La Muette. Basically, we live in Paris as in the provinces, of course, in strange villages. A native of Belleville explains.
From this postulate, the collective is having a field day. Tatiana de Rosnay, in the 7th part to the boarding of the rue Surcouf, she strikes up a chat with the Zouave of the Alma bridge. As for François Guillaume Lorin, in his beloved 6th arrondissement, he says “never went to Luxembourg, the country, but spent every day in Luxembourg, the garden”. And as for Denis Grozdanovitch, he defines the 16th with this pirouette, “it’s not the Latin Quarter but a distant district”. It is certain that the Parisians of the 12th and 13th, and especially the bourgeois bohemians of the 11th, only very exceptionally frequent Auteuil, Neuilly, Passy.
Paris knows how to count up to 20! Roundings, tenderly and poetically sketched by 20 writers, Gérard Mordillat in the lead, Irêne Frain, Marie Darrieussecq, Daniel Picouly, Guy Gofette and other equally talented authors.
To read or reread “Merci Paris” at Editions Tallandier.