Title : Memories of Low Tide - Chantal Thomas - book

Summary :

Swimming. Swimming to escape constraints, to escape imposed lives, reduced destinies. Swimming to invent her sensuality, to preserve her fantasy. This is what Jackie undoubtedly felt all her life, which began in 1919 and was led according to a secret, stubborn freedom, which made her, at a very advanced age, travel miles to go swimming on her favorite beach, in Villefranche-sur-Mer. In the meantime, she had married, left Lyon for Arcachon, and then, as a young widow, had exchanged Cap Ferret for Cap Ferrat, with its warmer sea, its great summer.
What did she leave to her daughter Chantal? Something untamed, or discreetly rebellious, and this intuition that swimming, this practice that leaves no trace, is the opportunity for an elusive freedom, like when, as a young girl in the early 1930s, Jackie casually swam a few lengths in the Grand Canal at the Palace of Versailles under the astonished gaze of the gardeners.

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