" Michel Tournier tells the language of Goethe his intimate link with Germany, his family Germanist, his report, his university studies in the field of ruins of postwar years. " Truly, Germany continues being worth me - as of the time of my childhood, of my youth, of my ripe age - sadness and joy, wounds and flowers, losses beyond repair and huge treasures. He notes that virtues among which each involves are always those who make him most defect. By a reflexion inspired by a loving look, Michel Tournier makes beat the heart of Europe and the people who compose her. 2006. Happiness in Germany? a nice promenade is the assured language and the correctness of views of which underline what makes wealth, force, but also weakness and paradox of this ancient mosaic which is Europe.