Blondin, a hundred years of solitude

Born in Paris on April 11, 1922, died on June 7, 1991, the author of A monkey in winter leaves behind him the image of a whimsical author and a poignant and melancholic work. Back on the journey of a disenchanted poet.

In Salas, a Limousin hamlet accessed by the C31, the house is located on a dirt road: Our farm – which is far from being a farmhouse -, takes pride Blonde by showing it around at the end of the 1970s to the readers of The House of Marie-Claire, consists of a vast barn with the depths of a cathedral, flanked by two rooms as a presbytery and a stable. Behind the white gate, a dog bares its teeth. He bit a neighbor. A sign warns: “You enter this enclosure at your own risk.” After the death of Antoine, on June 7, 1991, then of his wife, Françoise, six years later, the house was sold to a guy who went bankrupt. Placed in judicial liquidation, it was resold at auction to a Franco-Irish couple…