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...father, Laurent denounces him, is dumfounded to learn that everybody knows about this affair and many others besides. The oldest boy, Joseph, escapes the family by turning himself into a money-making machine; the dull and stupid Ferdinand marries a girl as secretive as himself; Daughter Cécile becomes a concert pianist, admired by Debussy, loved by a composer whose music is so hopelessly bad he kills himself. In its last 358 pages The Pasquier Chronicles gets genuinely mysterious in its confused diffusion. A score of new characters pop into the story, including distinguished scientists who agonize about...
...first of their sex ever appointed to a French Cabinet (TIME, June 15). Sensibly they conferred. In the United Kingdom, they know, female members of the Mother of Parliaments, such as Lady Astor, sit in hats. Last week, however, buxom and expensively dressed Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Léon Brunschvicg; drawn-faced and thrifty Undersecretary for Scientific Research Iréne Curie-Joliot; and sweetly garrulous Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore, decided unanimously to set the precedent that a French Cabinet female sits without...
...ferment the three good & great women had opportunity last week to do little more than assure reporters of their triple determination to draft and urge the enactment of specific laws for the benefit of French education, science and children. A heavy cross for Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Brunschvicg to bear is the fact that her immediate superior, Minister of National Education Jean Zay, is a most arrant Radical Socialist, author of perhaps the most defamatory poem ever written about a national flag, the red-white-&-blue French tricolor. It appears impossible for Mme Brunschvicg to keep French...
...France, followed his patron to the New World when Frontenac was made Governor General of New France. In Quebec he lived as far as possible the quiet bourgeois life he had known at home. A philosopher, Papa Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois; little Jacques, accidental son of a sleazy, sailor...
...When Pierre had made a landing and tied his boat, they went up the path to the smith's house, to find the family at dinner. They were warmly received and seated at the dinnertable. The smith had no son, but four little girls. After dinner Cécile went off into the fields with them to pick wild strawberries. She had never seen so many wild flowers before...