The Man Who Gives Paper Back Its Soul

Today, anyone who picks up a pen belongs almost to a silent minority. Notes go into smartphones, letters into the cloud, memories onto hard drives. Paper is omnipresent yet has become invisible. It lies beneath printers, in archives, and in shipping boxes. Hardly anyone asks anymore where it comes from, how it is made, or who makes it. In an old farmhouse in the heart of Auvergne, a young man is asking precisely these questions. Étienne Gouttefarde, in his early thirties, lives and works in Marsac en Livradois, a municipality ...