Émilie Frèche parle de son livre ‘Les amants du Lutetia’ et de la vulnérabilité dans nos sociétés

Émilie Frèche is a writer, director, and screenwriter, and she also writes for the theater. The author addresses one of our highlights of this literary season, “Les amants du Lutetia” (The Lovers of Lutetia) (Albin Michel Editions). The news story took place in 2013. A couple, Georgette and Bernard Casse, were found dead hand in hand, lying on a bed, in the room of the famous Parisian palace, the Lutetia. “It completely shook me, I found it very romantic, and I was able to project something very personal onto this story, it’s the point of view I take in this book, that of the only child. I imagined that they had an only child, which is not the case in real life,” recounts the author.

Little room for vulnerability

In “Les amants du Lutetia,” Émilie Frèche addresses the feeling of abandonment, the difficulty of family relationships, and especially with parents. “What interests me a lot is the place of vulnerability in our societies. Did ‘Les amants du Lutetia’ as I imagined them exercise their ultimate freedom, the freedom to leave life like leaving a party before it degenerates, or on the contrary, did they integrate the idea that in the society we live in, there is little room for vulnerability, and that these people who were great advertisers, people who threw parties, who had money and power, did not want to be in a state of fragility?” says Émilie Frèche.