ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my grandparents, Lucien Perrin, Marie Géant, Hugues Foppa, and Marthe Hel.

Thank you to Eloïse Cardine, a geriatrics nursing assistant, who gave me EVERYTHING.

Thank you to my personal reading committee, so essential, vital, precious: Arlette, Catherine, Maman, Papa, Pauline, Salomé, Sarah, Vincent, Tess, Yannick.

Thank you to Maëlle Guillaud.

And finally, I give thanks to Claude Lelouch for a thousand and thirteen reasons.