Used book – Les Fillettes chantantes, Robert Sabatier

Olivier, the little boy from Les Allumettes suédoises, Trois Sucettes à la menthe, and Les Noisettes sauvages, has grown up. At the beginning of Les Fillettes chantantes, he is sixteen years old and has become a printer's apprentice. He discovers love, Paris, and holidays in Touraine where rosé wine is drunk in "fillettes chantantes" (singing girls – a play on words for small bottles of wine). We will see him playing the student in the Latin Quarter, the night owl in Montparnasse, the gallant knight at the Gare de l'Est, the wanderer on Île Saint-Louis, in the Jewish quarter of Rue des Rosiers, in Montmartre, or on the grand boulevards. He becomes cultivated without even realizing it. His friend Samuel, a chemistry student, opens new horizons for him... This novel, which brings to life a difficult world at a turning point in history, is also a celebration of adolescence - with its anxieties, its contradictions, its exaltations, its joy. Les Fillettes chantantes: all the charm, gaiety, and tenderness of Robert Sabatier.