By vcelier on Skatehive
The Chronicle and the Collective Both my parents were part of a big family in France: one of 10 children and the other of 11 children. In 1952, independently, my two grandfathers started what one called "La Chronique" (The Chronicle) and the other "La Collective" (The Collective). This is how it worked: regularly, their children sent them a letter describing the main event in their lives, and my grandfathers sent the same letter to all of their children containing what happened to themselves and to all their children. After the death of my paternal grandfather, my father Paul took over the Chronicle and his siblings sent regular letters to him. And after the death of my maternal grandfather, my father took over the Collective. Originally, my father used a stencil duplicator from the brand Gestetner. At some point, he switches to a small word processor (not a computer) and a photocopier. Both the Chronicle and the Collective were sent by mail, to my parents' siblings and those of their