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Just after the publication of "La vie devant soi" at the start of the 1975 school year, Romain Gary had his little cousin Paul Pavlowitch play Emile Ajar. The press, publishers, readers, everyone fell for it. Well, almost everyone: a young student from Nice (where Gary spent part of his childhood), who had recently moved to Paris to study literature at the Sorbonne, was convinced that Émile Ajar and Romain Gary were one and the same writer. She went to find him on Rue du Bac, where the writer lived, to confront him. Will she denounce him? Or will the Enchanter manage to draw her into his illusion?