Word: druon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Possessors (Filmsonor Intermondia: Lopert) are all members of one big unhappy family who made their first appearance in Maurice Druon's Les Grandes Families, a 1948 Prix Goncourt novel based on some of the Two Hundred Families that presumably ruled France between the two World Wars...
...IRON KING (269 pp.)-Maurice Druon-Scribner...
...Maurice Druon's lucidly written novel (the first of a series to be called The Accursed Kings) plunges deep into a time when man's life was full but brutally short, when kingdoms were often handed to adolescents who, "hardly grown out of the age in which it is fun to tear wings from flies, might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men.'' Such precocious youngsters crowded Philip's court. Two of his three sons were deceived by their highborn wives, who paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their...
French Novelist Druon (The Film of Memory) seems perfectly at home in this stormy period. It was a time of flagging religious faith and burgeoning superstition, when witchcraft seemed more plausible than sainthood, and not even King Philip was surprised to find that a dying man's curse was as deadly as a knife: within a year of De Molay's howled imprecation from the fire, Pope, prosecutor and the King himself had followed the Templar to the grave...
...screen-tests the young beauty at just about the time that the old countess looks up from her deathbed to ask, rather like a child at party's end:"What? Is life over already?" Via Veneto Glitter. Amid the eerie indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed to blink what Cyril Connolly has called "the remorse which is the shadow...