"I don't like the country, except in the TGV." Like other phrases gathered here, this one was posted in the streets and underground passageways of the Parisian metro, or else proclaimed on stage at the Théâtre du Rond-Point. The author gave Stéphane Trapier the job of "depicturing" the sayings.

Jean-Michel Ribes is one of those curious types who pays attention to words so as to have the last one. With vigor and tenderness, these sentences sketch the portrait of a man who only likes the countryside in the TGV, where it goes faster.