Gisèle, who was sixty-seven, was taken into a private room, where Perret asked her about their marriage. “It was love at first sight,” she responded. She and Dominique had met when they were eighteen. They’d been together for forty-nine years. “He is kind and thoughtful,” she told Perret, according to the interview transcript. “He’s a great guy, we get along well, which is why we’re still together. He’s not perfect, but those are his main qualities.” When Perret asked about her social life, she said that she and Dominique were close with a couple whom they’d known for more than twenty years. “We share the same values: family, grandchildren,” she said.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter