Word: clanricard
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...represents the finest traditions of 19th-Century liberalism, no longer feels at ease in talking with the "little set" he had reigned over before the war; too many of the newcomers are Comrades who talk dogmatic stereotypes which are the death of all free discussion. The gentle schoolmaster, Clanricard, sick at heart in his wife's betrayal of him, makes genteel love to a young Russian and gets the whole sexual dialectic thrown at his head; even so, he thinks: "If enthusiasm and integrity are still to be found in this world, it is in Moscow that they must...
...story opens in Paris, October 6, 1908, early in the morning. Actress Germaine Baader is asleep in her bedroom. Schoolmaster Clanricard talks to his pupils about the threat of an European war. Apprentice Wazemmes grinds paint in a Montmartre workshop. Juliette Ezzelin leaves a book to be bound at Quinette's. Few minutes after she has left a murderer bursts into Quinette's shop, asks if he may wash his hands. Clanricard goes to lunch with his old master Sampeyre, Germaine Baader wakes up, Wazemmes goes to the races. Gurau, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Germaine...
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