Les Grosses Têtes: LE LIVRE DU JOUR - "Les petits farceurs" de Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld

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RTL, the book of the day.

The book of the day is called Les Petits Farceurs.

It's signed by Louis Henri de La Rochefoucault,

who we'll have on the phone in a moment.

It's a book that we talk a lot about in the press.

It's currently published by Robert Lafond.

It's a book that brings us to the middle,

the literary middle of the edition,

and also a bit of journalists through two characters.

That is, one character who tells the story of the other.

Poor story, terrible story,

by the way, because they met for 20 years

until one of the two ended up committing suicide.

And we meet again on that...

I don't reveal anything because we knew from the start.

But we meet again on his table

to read several books that he had read or read,

because he dreams of being a great writer.

And with the author of this book,

we'll tell you in a moment, of course,

why he didn't become a great writer

and what he had to do rather than write his own books.

But we meet on his table to read different books,

so read or read, like Education Sentimental.

Obviously, you're able to give the author.

Mr. Flaubert.

There you go, Flaubert.

The Magic Mountain.

Thomas Mann.

Thomas Mann, perfect.

The being of a stranger.

Sphègue.

Sphègue.

That's pretty easy.

Maybe the most complicated is the being of Felice.

Who do we owe this correspondent to?

Felice.

I read it.

I was going to read the other ones.

No, it's a non-spanish author.

No, Felice is a woman.

Yes, she's a Spanish writer.

No, no, no.

She's not Italian either.

No, she's not Italian.

She's not the letter to Felice.

No, it's just that, to be honest,

she's called Felice Bauer,

a very Italian writer.

We're on an American writer.

And she was written twice with this author

in your research.

In English?

No, in German.

In German, it's German or English?

In German, in any case.

No, it's Austrian.

So it's Austrian and it's not...

It's an Austrian author, indeed.

It's not...

It's Franz Feig.

No, it's not.

And it's Franz Kafka.

Good answer from Franz Pérand.

Hello, Louis-Henry from La Roche Foucault.

Hello.

Okay.

Everyone doesn't know the letter to Felice,

from Franz Kafka.

No one, anyway.

Everyone does, in any case.

Really?

Yes, I think it's a beautiful book.

It's very sweet of this Felice.

There's a correspondence of several years

between one and the other.

And that's what we find.

So on the table,

one of your characters,

the main character,

the one who dreams of being a writer

one day,

who comes from Grenoble,

who goes up to Paris.

Your book,

The Little Farceurs,

is also a tribute to Balzac, of course.

Yes, because the title,

in fact, The Little Farceurs,

comes directly from a passage

of a lost vision

or a character who knows how to digress,

says Lucien de Rubentree.

You may be one day a great writer,

but you will never be a Little Farceurs.

So your character comes from Grenoble.

He dreams of being a great writer.

He did his studies with a journalist

who works,

I would say,

at Technicart.

No, but it's you who works at Technicart.

Louis-Henry de la Rochefoucault.

But your Technicart in the novel,

you have re-baptized it already?

Avant-garde.

Avant-garde.

But we recognize, of course,

your newspaper.

Besides, in fact, the two characters,

it's a bit you,

Louis-Henry de la Rochefoucault.

Yes, exactly,

because the narrator looks a lot like me

and the unhappy hero

is inspired by things

that I observed in the

behind-the-scenes of the edition.

Because it tells the story

of this character,

Paul Bevon,

who dreams of being a great writer

and who writes a very ambitious novel

which is a sort of pastiche

of French literary history

of, let's say,

Cretain de Trois in Wellbeck.

The book makes a bid.

But suddenly, a Maccavelic editor

says to himself,

if this young boy

is pastiché Victor Hugo

and Chateaubriand,

he will be pastiché

the best-seller of the day.

And he embouches it like that

to become a sort of

more accurate priest.

And this unhappy Paul Bevon

ends up completely depressive

by writing personal development.

We were saying at a black age,

now we have to say,

write a ghost in some way.

That's it.

And your character

meets a certain Patrick Rossi.

So, right away,

I guessed,

for me, it's obvious,

you were attacking

Joel Dicker

through this writer there.

To listen,

and I would have had to say

that my book is a science fiction

since we recognize certain things,

but to listen to the titles

of the books of Patrick Rossi

looks a little...

Ah, yes.

to the one I was reading.

And also,

it's a boy who writes

best-seller,

he writes them or makes them write them.

And he was imposed

in three books,

tell you,

like the new Cador of the novel

of Ga,

still a little young,

37 years old,

rather photogenic.

He had everything

to seduce the manager.

Néanice,

the phoenix with gondola heads,

had a slight accent

that he simulated

as well as badly.

It was even more difficult

that he had to fight

since he was a teenager

against a bigger,

otherwise more severe.

After the crazy success

of the truth

about the affair,

Antonia Grimaldi,

there,

we have no more doubts.

In fact,

it's a mix

of different popular authors.

Exactly.

Yes.

Would you like to have

these popular authors?

No, no,

in fact,

I work at Technicart,

but I also work

as a critic

in different places,

especially the express

and magazine.

And in this title,

I often had the opportunity

to make portraits

of authors,

to meet a lot of authors.

And it's true

that often,

gondola heads,

I don't know,

in private,

were quite pittoresque.

And so,

I had fun,

here,

despite a few characters

that I saw in the arts

at home.

But I can't tell you

all the names

of people

who have a personal interest.

It would be bad.

And from the

literary world,

from the editing world

more precisely,

indeed,

your poor writer

is going to have to

tackle writing

of the people of football.

For example,

the world-known.

Several clowns

have different types of ideas.

Write it to yourself.

From the books,

to the published sites,

to the forgotten sites,

great big bosses,

three former ministers.

So we'll have

It will be the

most of all these personalities as it happens a lot in the world of editions.

I did that for five years. It was my job.

I wrote books for many personalities.

Pierre Belmar.

No, Pierre Belmar was an official, but for people who are not official.

It's official, it's official. There are few people who know.

My name was under Pierre Belmar.

While in many other companies, I worked for personalities that I can't name.

I wrote dozens of books for you.

You're not a father, you're not a father.

And it's a very frustrating job because you put the best of yourself,

you try to put yourself in the place of the person,

and then you see people on TV saying,

yes, I wanted to express this.

Louis-Henry de la Rochefoucault publishes Les Petits Farceurs.

We are talking about it a lot, of course,

currently in the press of this book because it is a true attraction

of the world of the edition and of the world of journalists.

Thank you, Louis-Henry de la Rochefoucault.

Les Petits Farceurs, it was the book of the day.

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