Jean-Yves Berthault is a French diplomat, fluent English speaker, and has worked professionally around the world. In 2012, when helping a close friend clear out her cellar in Paris, he stumbled upon an old attaché case buried deep beneath a high pile of discarded newspapers. Opening it, he discovered it was crammed full of letters dating from 1928, written by a woman who we shall call Simone. This was the start of a two-year project in which he collated the letters into chronological order and added historical and cultural footnotes. The letters are now a testament to a unique love affair and to a moment in history.
Jean-Yves…has edited them lovingly…[He] adds depth with quirky
historical footnotes.
*Times*
A treasure trove of love letters, found about 90 years after they
were written, give an extraordinary and pulsating glimpse into the
Paris of the Roaring Twenties.
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