Carmes

"Edouard gets back to work. After further improvements, it takes only about ten minutes to change a tire. “From now on,” declares the triumphant new boss of the Carmes factory, “a flat tire is no longer a disaster but a mere incident.”"

"His studies completed, he, like everyone else, dons the work overalls. In 1951, under a false identity, he works as a fitter at the Carmes factory where, in a small workshop, he files pieces of scrap metal to a hundredth of a millimeter “to learn the trade.” He arrives on foot or by bicycle, punctual, anonymous, with a bag on his back. He rotates through different positions: in “secret,” that is to say with the workers on three-shift rotations, for two years, with the “travelers” of the House for his tour of France with garages, with the drivers who shuttle between the factories of Carmes, Cataroux, and Estaing."