1. Best-loved book: Mémoires: Les Champs de Braises
"An autobiography of Hélie de Saint Marc, this book talks about a man who deals with the problems of society. Essentially, it is also a story of destiny that I find touching. De Saint Marc was an important member of the French resistance army who was detained in the Buchenwald camp by the Nazis following a betrayal in the resistance. After the war, he joined the foreign legion to fight in Indochina, and then in Algeria until his stay in prison following the Putsch of Algiers. He led a colourful life—there was disillusionment but also moments of happiness and brotherhood."