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Max et Lili #83
Lili a un chagrin d'amour
Lili broie du noir. Elle est sûre qu'Hugo, son amoureux depuis la maternelle, en aime une autre. Heureusement, son frère Max et sa copine Marlène lui redonnent goût à la vie. Elle décide que trois garçons vont tomber amoureux d'elle! Mais l'amour se décrète-t-il?
Ce livre de Max et Lili parle du chagrin d'amour, de l'amour qui rend heureux ou malheureux, qui donne des ailes ou désespère! Cette histoire montre qu'il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences, un malendendu est vite arrivé, qu'il faut s'aimer un peu soi-même, dire ce qu'on désire et ne pas tout attendre de l'autre... Le chagrin d'amour, en tout cas, est une expérience qui fait grandir!
Ce livre de Max et Lili parle du chagrin d'amour, de l'amour qui rend heureux ou malheureux, qui donne des ailes ou désespère! Cette histoire montre qu'il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences, un malendendu est vite arrivé, qu'il faut s'aimer un peu soi-même, dire ce qu'on désire et ne pas tout attendre de l'autre... Le chagrin d'amour, en tout cas, est une expérience qui fait grandir!
- GenresChildrens
43 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2007
About the author
Dominique de Saint Mars
408 books16 followersDominique de Saint Mars is a French author writing books for children and youth. She often writes with Serge Bloch who is the illustrator of all the Max and Lili books.
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June 17, 2016
French kids start dating earlier - which means they get their hearts broken earlier too, as we find out in this book. When I described the plot to notgettingenough, she expressed scepticism as to whether this really could be happening in a third or fourth grade class. But I'm pretty sure it's correct. Ainsi Va La Vie is rigorously fact-checked, and I also remember my first meeting with my colleague Marianne's daughter. Five year old Ymelia told me she had, not just one, but two boyfriends! So read on.
Lili, who's a conservative type, has been going steady with Hugo since kindergarten. (Please save your questions until the end. I'm just telling you what happens). But one day she arrives at school, and there's Hugo practicing with his football. Up walks leggy, blonde Valentine, the class vamp.
"Do you really want to take a shot at goal?" asks Hugo. "I mean, with those shoes..."
She does, which impresses him. "Valentine, if you didn't exist then we'd have to invent you!" says Hugo. Lili doesn't like the sound of this at all. It gets worse when they go in to class. Valentine brazenly passes a note to Hugo. She's trying to snatch him off Lili, right under her nose. And, worst of all, Hugo immediately sends a note back!!
The note gets passed from hand to hand, and ends up on Valentine's desk. The reader sees that she's disappointed. But, bitchy as ever, Valentine quickly readjusts her features into a beam of contentment. Lili, who's turned round too late, only catches the tail-end of this little vignette, and is completely taken in. In ten seconds, her whole world has crumbled into ashes.
She stumbles home after school, collapses on her bed and weeps inconsolably. She doesn't want any dinner - not hungry. The parents are a little concerned. Luckily, her friend Marlène turns up after a while.
"I HATE boys!" rages Lili. "I never want to be in love again!"
"I really like being in love!" says the practical Marlène. "Maybe you should try and find someone else. That creep Hugo was no way good enough for you."
She talks Lili round, and they start evaluating possible candidates. In the end they have a short-list of three. Marlène offers to sound them out, and comes back next day with a report. Karim wasn't interested; Simon feels too emotionally vulnerable after his parents' recent divorce; but Eliott looks promising. Lili suddenly decides she has to move on. She writes a note and passes it in Eliott's direction.
But... en route, it goes over Valentine's desk! She opens it and furiously tears it up. At recess, she goes up to Lili.
"What do you think you're doing?" she asks. "I'm really sweet on Eliott!"
"You think every boy in the class belong to you, don't you?" says Lili, who's so far from being her usual good-natured self that she hits Valentine. In a moment, the two girls are rolling around on the grass, punching and pulling hair. Suddenly Valentine can't take any more.
"I'm sorry, Lili!" she wails. "I'm such a bitch! Let me show you Hugo's note."
She's still got it in her pocket. When she uncrumples it, Lili sees that it reads
"I love you, Hugo!" she sighs.
Hugo, who's got average male emotional intelligence, has missed the whole drama and is clearly thinking WTF. But Lili has been a little weird recently, and it's nice she's back to normal.
It's no joke being a French eight year old. Scary stuff.
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Just reread this. If Dominique de Saint-Mars needs a quote for marketing purposes (not bleeding likely), I am happy to say that it is THE BEST LOVE STORY EVER WRITTEN*.
* The fine print: for French-speaking children under the age of nine.
Lili, who's a conservative type, has been going steady with Hugo since kindergarten. (Please save your questions until the end. I'm just telling you what happens). But one day she arrives at school, and there's Hugo practicing with his football. Up walks leggy, blonde Valentine, the class vamp.
"Do you really want to take a shot at goal?" asks Hugo. "I mean, with those shoes..."
She does, which impresses him. "Valentine, if you didn't exist then we'd have to invent you!" says Hugo. Lili doesn't like the sound of this at all. It gets worse when they go in to class. Valentine brazenly passes a note to Hugo. She's trying to snatch him off Lili, right under her nose. And, worst of all, Hugo immediately sends a note back!!
The note gets passed from hand to hand, and ends up on Valentine's desk. The reader sees that she's disappointed. But, bitchy as ever, Valentine quickly readjusts her features into a beam of contentment. Lili, who's turned round too late, only catches the tail-end of this little vignette, and is completely taken in. In ten seconds, her whole world has crumbled into ashes.
She stumbles home after school, collapses on her bed and weeps inconsolably. She doesn't want any dinner - not hungry. The parents are a little concerned. Luckily, her friend Marlène turns up after a while.
"I HATE boys!" rages Lili. "I never want to be in love again!"
"I really like being in love!" says the practical Marlène. "Maybe you should try and find someone else. That creep Hugo was no way good enough for you."
She talks Lili round, and they start evaluating possible candidates. In the end they have a short-list of three. Marlène offers to sound them out, and comes back next day with a report. Karim wasn't interested; Simon feels too emotionally vulnerable after his parents' recent divorce; but Eliott looks promising. Lili suddenly decides she has to move on. She writes a note and passes it in Eliott's direction.
But... en route, it goes over Valentine's desk! She opens it and furiously tears it up. At recess, she goes up to Lili.
"What do you think you're doing?" she asks. "I'm really sweet on Eliott!"
"You think every boy in the class belong to you, don't you?" says Lili, who's so far from being her usual good-natured self that she hits Valentine. In a moment, the two girls are rolling around on the grass, punching and pulling hair. Suddenly Valentine can't take any more.
"I'm sorry, Lili!" she wails. "I'm such a bitch! Let me show you Hugo's note."
She's still got it in her pocket. When she uncrumples it, Lili sees that it reads
THANKS VALENTINE. BUT I CAN ONLY LOVE LILI.Lili forgives Valentine in a split second, and gives her a big wet kiss. Then she goes off in search of Hugo and gives him an even bigger and wetter kiss.
"I love you, Hugo!" she sighs.
Hugo, who's got average male emotional intelligence, has missed the whole drama and is clearly thinking WTF. But Lili has been a little weird recently, and it's nice she's back to normal.
It's no joke being a French eight year old. Scary stuff.
______________________________
Just reread this. If Dominique de Saint-Mars needs a quote for marketing purposes (not bleeding likely), I am happy to say that it is THE BEST LOVE STORY EVER WRITTEN*.
* The fine print: for French-speaking children under the age of nine.
July 12, 2014
Lili a un chagrin d'amour was an absolutely enchanting little comic book about love and skinny bitches trying to steal your man.
There were sometimes phrases that I just didn't understand, like referring to someone as an "Artichoke Heart" or exclamations of "My Sheet!" (Which some how ends up being "damn"?)
But that's inevitable when things are lost in translation.
That, or The French language wishes to kill my spirit.
There were sometimes phrases that I just didn't understand, like referring to someone as an "Artichoke Heart" or exclamations of "My Sheet!" (Which some how ends up being "damn"?)
But that's inevitable when things are lost in translation.
That, or The French language wishes to kill my spirit.
June 30, 2025
J’ai lu ce livre quand j’étais très jeune, je souhaite beaucoup relire les histoires de Lili à mes enfants ahah
March 24, 2022
Je lu ces livres vers mes 6-7 ans. Je les adorai: ils m'amusaient et la fin avait toujours une bonne morale. Je pense honnêtement que ces livres m'ont éduqué et m'ont permis d'avoir à avoir de bonnes valeurs.
December 25, 2023
lectures de noël 🩷
November 1, 2012
A cute way to help young teens with their first heart-break, which really isn't such a heart-break after all, good when they are young enough to forget about that hurt so easily.
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