The black Renault leaves the departmental road and rushes into the gravel driveway. This Friday, August 5, five journalists are running behind the vehicle to see the passenger. After six months in a cell at Fleury-Mérogis, where he was serving his sentence for tax evasion, Patrick Balkany returns home, to the Cossy mill, on conditional release. ” Finally ! Inside the family mill, his wife, Isabelle, exults. The exile from Giverny, lonely for weeks in her huge Norman property, finds “the man of her life”. “I don’t even have the words to describe so much happiness,” she tells us.