Forges In Billancourt

There are not much on the island of Seguin what were the big plant Renault for several decades. Historian Martine Sonnet has just released books "The time it is" a beautiful literary narrative, soberly titled Atelier 62, which attempts to reconstruct what happened worker near and yet entirely disappeared.

If Martine Sonnet focused on the industrial memory, for personal reasons: his father worked fifteen years in the forges of the Renault factory at Billancourt, very hard 62 workshop.

But it is less historian that the girl who tells us about those years workers, the campaign that it took to settle e3ef484768bdc89195420378bc3cffa17.jpgn leave Paris suburbs, leisure weekend, and most importantly, the exhausting work which remains at the state of documents gathered patiently, through which she tries to imagine what might have been the life of his father and thousands of other doomed - and sometimes even killed - in the automobile industry .

A documentary account of a sensitivity that I warmly recommend