Used book – Lambeaux, Charles Juliet

In this book, the author sought to celebrate his two mothers: the lonely one and the valiant one, the stifled one and the courageous one, the one thrown-into-the-pit and the one who gave her all.The first, the one who gave birth to him, a peasant woman, following an unhappy love affair, a marriage that disappointed her, then four closely spaced maternities, sank into a deep depression. Hospitalized a month after the birth of her last child, she died eight years later in atrocious conditions.The second, mother of a large family, also a peasant woman, took in this child and raised him as if he were her own son.After evoking these two moving figures, the author briefly recounts his journey. In doing so, he tells us about the self-discovery of a man who managed to triumph over the "unthinkable distress" that held him captive. This is why Lambeaux is above all a book of hope.