Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse

Imagine stepping into a young mind that drifts between real rooms and imagined ruins. In this collection of recollections, the author sketches fleeting scenes from a Breton childhood—whispers of a legendary sunken city on the Atlantic, the hum of a linen grinder, prayers offered on an Acropolis, and the quiet corridors of several Parisian seminaries. The pieces are presented out of chronological order, each a small portrait that reveals how memory blends fact with poetry.

The narrator’s tone is both intimate and scholarly, peppered with gentle humor and a conscious keeping of some names concealed. Episodes such as the enigmatic “good man System” and the first tentative steps away from the Saint‑Sulpice seminary invite listeners to hear the echo of youthful curiosity and the shaping of a later thinker. The work offers a contemplative journey through the sensations, doubts, and small wonders that marked the first fifty years of a life turned toward ideas.