Les flammes de pierre

By Jean-Christophe Rufin

2021

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"Rémy et Laure partageaient le sommet de Croisse-Baulet et, si modeste qu'il fût, il faisait pour eux de cet instant un moment inoubliable.Rémy connaissait trop la force de cette communion pour y mêler les gestes minuscules de l'amour. Il sentait que son désir était partagé, que cette émotion avait la valeur d'une étreinte et que Laure, pas plus que lui, ne pourrait l'oublier. Tout devait garder son ampleur, sa grâce. Les petites effusions, les maladroites caresses humaines, dans ces décors de lumière, d'espace et de vent, sont dérisoires et même insupportables. Il fallait laisser l'esprit se mouvoir sans contraintes. Le regard était suffisant pour exprimer l'émoi et celui de Laure parlait sans ambiguïté.Ils retirèrent les peaux de phoque des skis, réglèrent les fixations pour la descente et raccourcirent les bâtons. Puis, sans se hâter, l'esprit plein d'un moment qu'il était inutile de faire durer tant il était saturé d'infini, ils s'élancèrent dans la pente."

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Jean-Christophe Rufin

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Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders). He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010. Rufin was born in Bourges, Cher in 1952. An only child, he was raised by his grandparents, because his father had left the family and his mother worked in Paris. His grandfather, a doctor and member of the French Resistance during World War II, had been imprisoned for two years at Buchenwald. In 1977, after medical school, Rufin went to Tunisia as a volunteer doctor. He led his first humanitarian mission in Eritrea,where he met Azeb, who became his second wife. A graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Political Sciences) in 1986, he became advisor to the Secretary of State for Human Rights and published his first book, Le Piège humanitaire (The Humanitarian Trap), an essay on the political stakes of humanitarian action. As a doctor, he has led numerous missions in eastern Africa and Latin America. He is former vice-president of Médecins Sans Frontières and former president of the non-governmental organization Action Against Hunger.