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The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.… (more)
Editor of Elle Paris, Jean-Do Bauby was left paralysed and unable to speak or move a muscle after a stroke at the age of 45. Trapped in what he saw as a diving bell, Bauby's only lifeline became the temporary release - or butterfly - of his eyelid, a tool he developed to such an extent that he was able to complete his memoirs before dying. French with subtitles
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The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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