![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also provides many interesting insights into life here. This book of essays is an expression of love for his adopted country – Déon and his family moved permanently to Tynagh, Co Galway, in 1988. It reminded me of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal’s observation in relation to a similar situation: “I was expecting to discover a writer and instead I had the pleasure of meeting a human being.” I was somewhat in awe at the prospect of being introduced to a long-standing member of the Académie Française, whose best-known work, Le Taxi Mauve (The Purple Taxi), was set in Ireland and made into a film with Charlotte Rampling and Peter Ustinov.īut as soon as we began to converse I was put completely at ease by the relaxed charm and complete lack of affectation in Déon. Déon had been invited to give a keynote address, as befitted someone described in his obituary in this newspaper as the most Irish of French writers. I had the privilege of meeting Michel Déon in March 2006, on the eve of a Franco-Irish conference that was being hosted at University College Cork. ![]()
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