The spite of a Ile-de-France mask maker: “We participated in the war effort and then we were left to our own devices”

On the pallet just taken down from its shelf, large boxes are piling up. Gabriel Defrocourt plunges his hands into one of them, pulls out a harvest of brightly colored “duckbills”. “These are the very first ones we made, very thick children’s masks,” he says, as if unearthing a very old memory. Then he repacks the goods. It will not move from the warehouse where it is stored, in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).

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