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CECILE PASQUIER -Georges Du-hamel-Ho/f ($2.75). Herein, in books 6, 7, and 8 of his Pasquier Chronicles, Georges Duhamel continues to outline not only a family but the city of Paris, the civilization of modern France. Chief characters are Sister Cecile, pianistic genius...
...cultivated as a literary salon, France's Ministry of Information this week was jampacked with authors of bestsellers, turning out communiques of cadenced sentences and well-chosen phrases. Handling world-wide radio broadcasts was heavy, bespectacled, sentimental Georges Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting...
...PASQUIER CHRONICLES-Georges Duhamel-Holt...
...Frenchman had written The Forsyte Saga, that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel...
...lecturing strangers for their impoliteness in yawning in public, messing up the affairs of his whole family without an instant's remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author Duhamel obviously sympathizes with the hysterical, poetic Laurent, who tells the story, he nevertheless does not spare him. To shame his money-grubbing brother the penniless Laurent takes his first 1,000 francs and horrifies him by tearing it up and throwing it into the Marne. Not for a long time can Laurent steel...