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{\an8}For Henriette, resident of La Défense,
Paris, from 1959 to 2016.
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It's a bit of a blurred memory.
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We are both leaning
on your kitchen windowsill.
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I must have been ten.
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You are telling me
about when your came here in 59.
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It was the highest building in the area.
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Through that same window,
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you could see the Seine River.
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And then...
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year by year,
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you saw the skyscrapers grow
taller and taller,
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closer and closer,
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until one day,
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the view from your window sent back
your own reflection.
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After that, you had your heart attack.
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Then, you moved house.
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A year passed
before melancholy took hold of me and...
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with it came the desire to return
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to draw the skyscrapers.
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The Great Arch
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A film by Camille Authouart
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Day one...
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7:30 am.
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It's rush hour in La Défense.
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The footsteps echo on the concrete.
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Everyone knows their way.
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No-one needs their eyes to guide them.
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There's a waft
of take-away coffee in the air.
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There's movement all around me.
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However, out of habit,
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I draw what's still.
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Day two...
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Read on the internet:
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"With over 70 works of art
spread around the district,
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"La Défense, Paris, is the biggest
open-air museum in Europe."
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I can't grasp
how I didn't notice it before.
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There's "Ikaria",
"The Ring of Windsocks",
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"Monumental Fountain", "Octopus",
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"Mechanical Bird", "Signals",
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"Traits d'union",
"Les Hommes de la cité",
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"The Car On the Lamppost",
"Water Lilies",
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"Double lines indeterminate",
"The Three Trees",
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"La Défonce",
"In the Footsteps of Our Fathers,"
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"Fantastic Characters",
"The Chimneys", "The Thumb"...
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"The Red Spider".
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Day five...
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This morning there's a man, barefoot,
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sleeping under The Great Arch.
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No-one seems to notice him.
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Day six...
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I had forgotten this westerly wind
and this seaside-like air.
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He's here again today.
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I wonder what he's dreaming about.
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Day thirteen...
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it has become a ritual.
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He's my first drawing of the day.
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Each day, it's as if
I get to know him better,
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as if the lines of his body
tell me about him.
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Day 28...
I haven't seen him for days.
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I trekked all over the district.
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I walked to the edge of La Défense
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but he has disappeared without a trace.
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Since he left, the skyscrapers bore me.
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Tomorrow, I won't be back.
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{\an8}1983 - It's a modern Arc de Triomphe.
A symbol of hope.
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{\an8}In the future,
people will be able to meet freely here
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{\an8}under the Arch of Triumph of Man.
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{\an8}Johan Otto V. Spreckelsen
Architect of The Great Arch.
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Subtitles: Thomas Carey