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“It’s completely logical,” she said, noting that she regularly consulted the “cahier des doléances,” the book kept in French town halls in which locals can write down their complaints.

In the bookstore, when I ask with my bad French, “Ou est ma cahier?” the man looks around at a thousand cahiers and just looks confused.

Meanwhile, messages come in from other hotels I have stayed at: no, we don’t have your pink cahier.

Le cahier de poesie - the poetry book - is a standard-format exercise book required by every primary school child in France.

But the trauma must mostly be eventually forgotten because the cahier de poesie is the schoolbook most cherished by both parents and children.