Empty chairs

The author offers a series of personal reminiscences of conversations, dinners, and backstage encounters with prominent figures across theatre, the Church, the law, and the arts. He sketches informal portraits of monarchs, bishops, judges, artists and actors, recalling anecdotes, hospitality, and moments that shaped his social and professional life. Chapters alternate between lively vignettes, institutional reflections, and affectionate, elegiac tributes to absent friends, blending observation and memory into a modest, conversational chronicle of notable acquaintances.