Jean d’Ormesson, jusqu’à 35 ans chez ses parents, rue du Bac : sa vie dans ce célèbre hôtel

Jean d’Ormesson’s prolonged stay in a gilded Parisian mansion highlights the aristocratic privilege that often serves as the foundation for French intellectualism. It is a bittersweet look at a literary giant whose identity was inextricably tied to inherited history and high-society nostalgia.