Le Discours d'acceptation glorieux de Nicolas Chauvin
During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin ā a farmer-soldier, a veteran of the Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Wars, āfatherā of the chauvinism that bears his name ā embarks on a monologue and recounts his life story. At the bend of a road, a spectral encounter shocks his (non-)existence.