[4] He attended preparatory classes in Paris at Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour before studying at ISG Business School with the aim of finding employment in the publishing world.

[7] Le Moral des ménages, published in 2002 by Editions Stock is a critique of the middle class.

[8] Existence (2004), Cendrillon (2007) and Le Système Victoria (2011) continued in this vein, subjects covered included globalisation, world finance and the diktat of social achievement.

[9] L'Amour et les forêts (2014), Reinhardt's first novel published by Gallimard represented a change in topic to the world of the intimate in the spirit of Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.

[11] A blend of truth and fiction, La Chambre des époux (2017) covered his wife's experience with breast cancer and his fear of losing her.