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Chapter 5: Michel Epstein
Irène Némirovsky meets her future husband, a Russian Jew like her, during the new year 1925. “I don’t know,” she writes to her French friend, if you remember Michel Epstein, a little brown-haired guy with a very dark complexion who came back with Choura and us by taxi on that memorable night or rather that memorable morning of January 1st? He is courting me and, my faith, I find him to my liking. So, since the crush is very violent at the moment, you shouldn’t ask me to leave, do you understand?
Portrait of Michel Epstein
© Fonds Irène Némirovsky/ IMEC
