It’s 1929 and Jean is twenty. He lives in Paris, in rue Clairault, and works for a stock exhange company in the rue Grange Batelière.
On 11 December he meets Rose, at Saint Lazare metro station.
She is eighteen, lives in the 15th arrondissement and attends the National Hairdressing School.
Three months later, on 10 March 1930, Rose sets off for New Caledonia on the ocean liner, the ‘Ville de Verdun’.
Two years after she leaves, Jean re-constructs their story. He re…
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