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TO LISTEN. From their first meeting, it is intellectual and romantic love at first sight between the young virgin Clara and André, already a mythomaniac.
By Frédéric Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
Published on 07/13/2012 at 11:59 p.m. – Modified on 07/14/2023 at 01:05 a.m.
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On July 14, 1921, while the Parisians were celebrating the storming of the Bastille, André Malraux stormed another fortress, untouched until then, Clara Goldschmidt’s small private garden… A torrid night of love takes place in the small maid’s room that André, 20, rents on the top floor of the Lutetia hotel in Paris. Clara, who is twenty-three, has long sought to lose her virginity. She chose André, a strange young man who amuses her so much. Like a sated cat, she observes him tenderly: “He’s a very tall, slender teenager, with eyes that are too big, whose pupils don’t fill the huge domed globe; a white line is drawn under the faded green iris. He has to take her home, because Clara still lives with her mother, in Neuilly…
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