Used Book – Veuf, Jean-Louis Fournier

I'm a widower, Sylvie died on November 12th. It's very sad. This year, we won't go shopping together. She left discreetly on tiptoe, doing a pirouette and making the sound that happiness makes when it leaves. [...] I was very lucky to meet her, she carried me through everything, always with a smile. It was the meeting between an optimist and a pessimist, an altruist and an egoist. We were complementary, I had the flaws, she had the qualities. [...] She didn't like to talk about herself, even less to have good things said about her. I'm going to take advantage of it, now that she's gone. J.-L. F

Sylvie was the first to leave. [...] In this book that pays tribute to her, Jean-Louis Fournier tells her – as is his custom, with tenderness and restraint, and with the derision he is capable of in all circumstances – such beautiful things that they should make her want to come back. Valérie Gans, Madame Figaro.