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Writers	portrait	Bertrand Mathieu

André Dhôtel seen by Bertrand Mathieu: I was unacquainted with his works. As I was to meet him, I had read some of his books, -"le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais" (The unreachable country), mainly "je ne suis pas d'ici" (I'm not from here) ... I spoke to him as to a writer and he answered me : "I'm not a writer, I'm a "traînard" (loiterer), I'm walking in woods picking mushrooms..." I thought : what a man! I remember him near his home in Mont-de-Jeux, always holding hands with his wife Suzette as if they had been teen agers in love! He had been teaching in Athenes half a century before me He spoke this parodox to me as he compared the local Ardennes sky to that of Attica in Greece : "I feel I'm in Attica here in the Ardennes!"

From l. to r. : Bertrand Mathieu, Michel Gillet, André Dhôtel, Suzette Dhôtel, Monique Gillet

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