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Lucie's husband ("descended from the corsair just as you descend a long staircase when you slip-on his backside") died years ago. And Luc La Hourie, her only son, was reported lost at sea with a Breton fishing trawler just three months after he married Françoise...
...know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
Hugh MacLennan, a top Canadian novelist (Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes), is an alert, perceptive native of Cape Breton, N.S. who has been around quite a lot. After sampling life in England (as a Rhodes scholar), and in the U.S. (as a graduate student at Princeton for three years), he decided that Canada was the place to live after all. In MacLean's Magazine this week 39-year-old Novelist MacLennan gives some reasons why the U.S. is not his choice...
What gave the Guardian its high place was implicit last week in the long leader for the day by the veteran John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond, Scott's biographer, who broke his retirement to write of his former chief...
Johnny Frenchman (J. Arthur Rank-Universal) explores a novel and fascinating locale: a Cornish fishing village and its Breton counterpart across the Channel. The picture also preaches a worthy moral: "People of good will are pretty much the same, no matter what language they speak...