Title: See how we dance - Jean d'Ormesson - book
Summary :
One spring morning, Romain's funeral takes place. Driven by an immoderate taste for happiness, he believed in nothing but cultivated a difficult art: the love of life. As he passed by, an inner sun began to shine. At the cemetery, among tearful men and women, his closest friend sees—as in the first scene of "The Barefoot Countess"—the countless lives and intertwined destinies of those who throw a rose on the coffin of the one they loved so much unfold. Two female figures reign throughout these pages: a mother and her daughter. Around them and Romain, from New York in the 1930s to the latest scientific discoveries, via the plains of Ukraine, a Greek island, an Italian hotel and the southern coast of Turkey, we see Hitler's valet, the pilots of the Normandy-Nièmen squadron, an art historian, a professor of theoretical physics, Arthur Rubinstein and Marshal Zhukov, Lucky Luciano and Churchill... Each of them is the hero of a small novel that is linked by history and feelings to the great novel that brings them all together. Life appears as a great saraband; it is also a tearful celebration.
