Je l’avais entendue à la radio, donc j’étais très contente de pouvoir me faire dédicacer son dernier livre (qui est un succès) : Riches ensemble ! Felicia et moi avons assisté à une rencontre avec l’économiste Anne-Laure Delatte, à Citéco, la cité de l’économie à Paris. Et ça nous a beaucoup plu !

A Saturday afternoon in a former bank vault in Paris, for a book signing and conversation with economist Anne-Laure Delatte, a CNRS researcher whose new book Riches ensemble tackles France's public debt and what to do about it. I tell the story as I told it to my father on the phone: the grand neo-Renaissance mansion turned Banque de France branch turned museum, the heavy vault door, the questions from the audience, and an economist who stays optimistic despite the numbers. The storytelling is clear and conversational, and the economic vocabulary (debt, public spending, pensions, budget) is explained by context, so it suits B2 listeners who want to follow current French affairs. For C1 listeners, the real reward is hearing how a visit is described and recounted in natural past tenses, with long sentences that stay easy to follow.

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