Eric Naulleau, author, critical literary and television host
François-Henri Deserable, writer
«When you meet great characters, important men, promise to tell them: No. 16 large-Pohulanka, to Vilnius Street, lived in Mr. Piekielny...» When he made the promise to this Mr. Piekielny, his neighbor, Roman Kacew was a child. Adult, resistant, diplomat, writer under the name of Romain Gary, he has always acquitted: ' from the stands of the United Nations at the Embassy in London, the Federal Palace in Bern at the Elysée Palace, in front of Charles de Gaulle and Vichinsky, in front of the dignitaries and the. Builders for a thousand years, I never missed to mention the existence of the small man", he says in the promise of dawn, her fictionalized autobiography. One day in may, chances threw François - Henri Deserable before the No. 16 to the large-Pohulanka Street. He decided, that day, to go in search of a certain Mr. Piekielny.