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Dans ce récit sensible et poignant, porté par une plume magnifique, Flavie Flament brise le silence et évoque la trahison des adultes qui lui ont ravi son innocence. C'est aussi l'histoire d'une renaissance. Un livre rare, où la force de l'écriture est au service d'un combat. Un combat citoyen, car « faire du mal à un enfant, c'est faire du mal au monde de demain ».

These three ‘Consolations', written by Seneca to his mother and two friends, have been described as ‘the crowning achievement in the canon of ‘consolation letters'. But sentimental they are not, for they emerge from the writer's deep-seated commitment to Stoicism, where individuals are exhorted to inhabit qualities of virtue, positivity, resilience, and indifference. This recording opens with Seneca's consolatory letter to Marcia, who, after three years, was still mourning the death of her son.

In 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from complications of childbirth. But from the depths of despair, Cicero fought his way back. In an effort to cope with his loss, he wrote a consolation speech—not for others, as had always been done, but for himself. And it worked. Cicero's Consolation was something new in literature, equal parts philosophy and motivational speech.