Chronic
Every week
The chronicle of Grégoire Delacourt
I am not going to return here to what I mentioned in The Repaired Child (Grasset, 2021) and Polaroids of the Brother (Albin Michel, 2025), namely the “inappropriate behavior” that my father had towards my childhood and of which all the violence finally exploded in the gut and in my face after decades of denial and silence around, because, inevitably, we knew — and I take this opportunity once again to thank my mother who, moving away from her, and therefore from him, saved me. Sunday is Father’s Day and I, who have never celebrated mine, wonder what we’re celebrating. And where does this party come from?
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