Darling, I'm Going to Charlie by Maryse Wolinski

Author:Maryse Wolinski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria / 37 Ink

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I.  François Cavanna (1923–2014) was an author and editor of satirical newspapers. He contributed to the creation and success of Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo. He also translated books about famous cartoonists.

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THE SHOCK WAVE spread all over the world. Journalists called from England, the United States, Germany, Norway, and Italy, where Georges counted many famous cartoonists among his friends. One day, alone in a studio, I tell the BBC journalist who is interviewing me from London about the Post-its that now cover the walls of the apartment. Georges used to leave them for me on the table in the entrance hall if we weren’t going out together, and especially on Tuesday nights when I was often out without him. “But what on earth could he write to you?” the young woman asked. “Simple words, but words of love.” I’d gotten into the habit of keeping them in my desk drawer, but one day, I put some of them on the wall of the hallway that led to the kitchen. When my women friends came over, they were envious. They’d never gotten that kind of attention from their husbands or partners. After the attack, I covered all the walls of the apartment with the pink, yellow, and white Post-its. Every day, I stop in front of one and read it. I now know each message by heart and can recite them to myself. I see Georges’s hand as he writes them. His hand was his work tool, and it was grazed by a stray bullet.

The day after the BBC broadcast, the journalist calls me back. Touched by what they’ve heard, her listeners want to see the Post-its on the Internet. I agree to allowing a photographer come to immortalize them. As soon as they appear on the BBC website, they are retransmitted throughout the media. They make their way around the world.

Beyond the emotion and astonishment of an entire people, the shock wave brought about a movement of brotherhood on January 11. Brotherhood, an outdated word that the January 7 attack had brought back into fashion. After what the French historian Pierre Nora called “a monstrous event” in the revue he founded, Le Débat, France stood in solidarity against the terrorists and acted. But which France? Points of view diverge.

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