Word: chateauful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live who can convince me that she has really learned to live with a monster and to regard his terrifying chateau with its mobile furnishing as her very own. Miss Day try to act as though they were perfectly normal accouterments to fairy rale living. The result is that she seems singularly blase for one whose innocence is so highly touted...
...that he would be jailed for countless years if the British police ever caught up with him. The Germans whisked Eddie off, first to a prison near Paris (where Eddie beguiled his time by sawing through the doors which led to the women's quarters), then to a chateau on the Loire. Soon Eddie was happily drinking wine and cognac with the bibulous major in charge...
...work on the Index), denounced the Emperor Napoleon III ("France . . . owes him an epitaph that could only be this: Napoleon the Last!"), refused to admit that General Bonaparte had ever become an emperor at all. As far as Larousse was concerned, Bonaparte should have dropped dead "at the Chateau de St. Cloud, near Paris, the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII* of the French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse no longer goes in for such acerbity, but in its own way, it still manages to mirror the changing spirit of France. Under angoisse (anxiety...
...this point that the frustrated Gradėre, living with the others in a dismal, rainswept chateau in southwestern France, adds murder to his long catalogue of sins. As the rain pours down, he intercepts the blackmailing Aline, now plotting with Symphorien to drive him from the chateau, and "without haste or passion, [performs] that act of squeezing her throat of which he had so often dreamed...
...Navarre was born of solid bourgeois stock at Villefranche de Rouergue, in southwestern France. His father, a polished, urbane scholar, was a professor of Greek at Toulouse University, but his son set out early on a military career, served on the front in 1916, and with the Americans at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 (retaining from that an unwavering admiration for U.S. troops). He graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1918, later went back for further studies...