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...other three National Front-controlled cities, the shock has been somewhat less brutal. Though they have all beefed up their police forces, it is mainly in the cultural area that the Front has left its mark. In Orange, Mayor Jacques Bompard, 54, caused a scandal last summer when he censored a list of books ordered by the municipal library, blackballing "leftist" writers in favor of far-right authors. Marignane's mayor, Daniel Simonpieri, 45, has put his local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat...
...obscure crime, he has proliferated a great flowering of sin and scenery, myth and mysticism. He resembles Simenon in his ability to evoke swiftly a street, a room, a city. In the final chapters, there is an unfortunate settling down of Gothic and miasmal mist, but even here, Gabrielle Bompard is wildly and insistently alive, whether jabbing a coachman with her imperious parasol or grumbling crossly at a tired lover: "Is it my fault if men overestimate their capacities?" Many readers, like Jacquemar himself, may be horror-stricken to find that they "cannot help loving this terrible woman...
...chief of police. In some hundred pages of hard work and intuitive skill, Goron pieces together the scanty clues, finds Gouffe's body and arrests his undoubted murderers-a sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass., and a young prostitute named Gabrielle Bompard, who makes even the smoldering Justine of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet appear fairly innocuous by comparison...
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