These holidays where Gide and Thérèse could have met

They are three years apart. They have the same thirst for truth. They could have met in Normandy... Father Thierry Henault-Morel tells us what happens next...

Three years separate the author of "Earthly Nourishments" from that of "The Story of a Soul." And while their spiritual and moral choices also diverge, both shared a strong desire to escape a painful and ill-adjusted childhood.

For three consecutive years, from 1883 to 1885, their two families spent summer vacations two kilometers apart in Val Richer near Lisieux. Enough to imagine a hypothetical meeting between these two monumental French figures.