Word: burgher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined. The second convict, Emile (Henri Marchand), free at last, a wistful champion of the bill of rights, is jailed again...
...counterpart of their creator; but no scholar hitherto has advanced so logically from detail to totality, and none has formulated as precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher of the humdrum Swiss nineteenth century, but that through overcompensation for his won sickly body and for the narrow sphere of his activity, he fied--from weakness, not from exuberance of strength--to the grandeur of the times and heroes he represents in his works...