Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain2001

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Narrator:
On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend's funeral, Eug?ne Col?re erased his name from his address book. At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Rapha?l Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. Nine months later, Am?lie Poulain was born.