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Finance?Henri Ch?...
...CH??RI?Colette?.A. & C. Boni?...
...could remember Ch??ri as a baby ... by turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Ch??ri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...
...mother's friend, was a cool blonde 24 years older than Ch??ri. When Léa invited the youth to come with her to the country he brought along his Renouhard runabout, saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, Léa remained in Ch??ri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing Léa's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...
...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Ch??ri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...