Vaqtī Ū Hifdah Sāl Bīshtar Nadāsht: Persian 1403

She is a drama teacher, he is her student. She has a husband, three teenage children, and the seemingly orderly life of a provincial bourgeois. She likes great authors, he wants to become a writer. She likes mini-skirts, he likes her legs. She thinks he is brilliant, he wants to marry her. Her name is Brigitte and he is Emmanuel May 2017. She is now 64 and he is 39. She is holding the hand of the youngest President of the Republic that France has ever known. He says he would never have gotten there without her. I wanted to understand how a woman from the provincial lower middle class, raised by nuns, had the incredible audacity to defy her family and popular morality to live a second life with a man twenty-four years younger than her. As I had done for Penelope, I got as close as possible to Brigitte's story (also a baby boomer) to find out what it says about an era, what it says about us, French women. To do this, I followed in Brigitte's footsteps in Amiens, Le Touquet, Alsace, and Paris, I met dozens of witnesses there and I immersed myself in Brigitte's youth, the time that Emmanuel did not know: the post-war period, the General, the 45s, May 68, the Trente Glorieuses...