Word: bertaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Braibant's story is the old one of the vampire mother whose dominating ways kill any nascent sense of independence in her children. The "iron" mother, Marlise Bertaud, gets her tremendous power through avarice. She worships at a strong box, spends her evenings balancing her accounts, is as shrewd as a Chinese banker in lending petty sums and collecting five per cent, no more, no less...
...shop, for she has become the fond owner of a grand assortment of mortgages. When Aime, the growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will not be able to protect the Bertaud property after her death. Marlise is still unable to share her control of monies, mortgages, farmland. She has an instinctive realization that she will outlive her son, who wilts and dies in his 50's without ever daring to tell Marlise of his mistress and his bastard son, Remy...
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