{"id":1996054,"date":"2010-05-26T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2010\/05\/26\/the-sncf-didier-van-cauwelaert\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:56:53","slug":"the-sncf-didier-van-cauwelaert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2010\/05\/26\/the-sncf-didier-van-cauwelaert\/","title":{"rendered":"The SNCF &amp; Didier van Cauwelaert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les t\u00e9moins de la mari\u00e9e &#8211; Didier van Cauwelaert &#8211; Editions Albin Michel &#8211; May 2010 &#8211; Price: 19\u20ac.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10043\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037381.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10043\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10043 lazyload\" title=\"DSC03738\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037381-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037381-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037381-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dits photos : Elisa Palmer<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Futura, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">Monday, May 24, 2010 &#8211; N\u00eemes (Gard)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Further than you think&#8221; (SNCF slogan)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_10042\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037432.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10042\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10042 lazyload\" title=\"DSC03743\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037432-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037432-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC037432-1024x457.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/133;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dits photos : Elisa Palmer<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">2h58 is the<span style=\"color: #000000;\">exact timing <\/span>to read Didier van Cauwelaert&#8217;s latest book,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">if you have stamped your ticket,  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">if you don&#8217;t feel like inspecting the new TGV toilets,  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">if you are not trapped\/barricaded in 2nd class, window side, by a sleeping traveler snoring on <span style=\"color: #000000;\">his Sudoku <\/span>,  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">if you are in the <span style=\"color: #000000;\">direction of the train <\/span>,  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #002ba4;\">\/?t.se.te.?a\/\/?t.se.te.?a\/\/?t.se.te.?a\/&#8230;<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I might as well tell you, I was in a bad way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">But hey,<span style=\"color: #000000;\">lucky for me, <\/span>everything went well.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The book, bought in a hurry, in a Point Relais, with as <span style=\"color: #000000;\">main motivation<\/span>: the<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> man &#8211; still alive &#8211; with his head cut off, in his wedding suit, on the first cover<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Marrying a &#8220;trunk&#8221;, well, the<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> idea can be pleasant <\/span>.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Book summary:  <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>&#8220;We were his best friends: he asked us to be his witnesses. Five days before the wedding, he dies in a car accident.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>This morning, at the airport, we are waiting for his fianc\u00e9e. She arrives from Shanghai, she doesn&#8217;t know anything and all we know about her is her first name and her flight number.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>How to tell him the truth? We were about to shatter her dream; she is the one who, in less than twenty-four hours, is going to change our lives.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>But is this young Chinese woman the ideal woman or the worst manipulator?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Imagine the worst, and Didier van Cauwelaert will do even better.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Indeed, each move must have as a moral rule to be always lower than the previous one.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> And, quite naturally,<\/span> one  <span style=\"color: #000000;\">ends up taking a liking to it. Because at the end of the day, we&#8217;re all the same, and who doesn&#8217;t like stirring up mud?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In a few lines,  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Take a &#8211; real &#8211; bunch of buddies, tightly knit, loaded with money. Put in the middle a man who is a little bit better than the other protagonists (more sex appeal, richer, more influential, better known, more &#8220;better&#8221;&#8230;). This man will be a photographer, for all the unmentioned reasons we can think of&#8230; The right moment (before his death), the right person (a celebrity), made him go from complete and effective anonymity to success story.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As a result:  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(well-funded bank accounts, Urbi &amp; Orbi connections + dedication, and infinite generosity = well-placed and &#8211; rather &#8211; happy buddies in life, but not at the top either, with lots of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">unfulfilled personal and professional dreams). <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This man will be at the same time a ladies&#8217; man, a Casanova, and a Don Juan (yes, a winning trio), for all the reasons already mentioned that we can think of: &#8220;more sex appeal, richer, more influential, better known, more &#8220;better&#8221;&#8230;  <\/span>After use(s)  <span style=\"color: #000000;\">simple or repeated (depending), as a good man of his time, he recycles his mistresses by offering them gracefully to his friends. Pretty cool, buddy.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The punch line: When Marc, of his first name, announces to his vassals that he has met THE woman, and that he intends to marry her.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After this episode, Marc dies in an accident. But, the machine is already launched. And, the bride-to-be arrives in France, in Paris, to say YES.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Marc&#8217;s friends:  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">bewildered, stunned, deafened, shocked, dismayed, amazed, dazed, flabbergasted, crushed, appalled, astonished, stunned, groggy, dumbfounded, stunned, traumatized&#8230;  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Find themselves having to receive the bride all the same.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Establishment of strategies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Abort strategies.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">And in the end, everyone wants it, we tear the widow, and we say thank you to the dead friend.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Quotes.com:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The funniest : p.41<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Banyuls,&#8221; said the more gallant of the two, with a closed look, when he discovered my name. You are called like the wine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I explained that I had been found on a hillside in Roussillon, which is why my unknown origins were being replaced by a controlled appellation.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The sexiest : p.170<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Thank you, Jean Claude.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">She put me back in my underwear. I caught my breath, panting, leaning against the unstable partition. It was the first time a girl had swallowed me and thanked me. They are right to say that life begins at forty.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The most cultural : p.204<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;What is very strong about the Chinese woman&#8217;s tactics&#8230;, is that she creates harmonious structures in order to benefit from them. If she restores the happiness of others, it is to be invited into it. She practices the <em>feng shui <\/em>of feelings: she remakes the interiors before squatting in them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The most <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marguerite Duras<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> : p.208<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Writing is looking back. And I don&#8217;t want to suffer anymore.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The most ambiguous: p. 226<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Is that a threat?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An emulation, I hope, for the four of you. Enjoy your head start: for the moment you are the only one who knows the rules of the game.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She stretches. I grab a rail of the banister, to restore balance. She smiles with a yawn, like a coach who is as excited as she is exhausted thinking about the task ahead.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marlene is to become her own artist, Bany is to finish developing her vegetable engine, Jean-Claude is to create a company to market it, you are to have it published next year. These are Marc&#8217;s last wishes. And I&#8217;m the risk premium.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Rating stars (here 3 \/ 4).  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Futura;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Elisa Palmer \/ LUXSURE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les t\u00e9moins de la mari\u00e9e &#8211; Didier van Cauwelaert &#8211; Editions Albin Michel &#8211; May 2010 &#8211; Price: 19\u20ac. 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