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Joan of Arc was put to death on a pile of burning fagots. Gilles de Rais, the French nobleman who fought at her side at Orléans, met a somewhat different end. He turned out to be a fagot who dismembered and burned a pile of little boys-800 of them, by the best estimates of the time. In its outlines, this historical novel is undoubtedly Sade-but-true. More debatable is the book's claim that Marshal de Rais was not entirely a monster, but "the magnified and distorted image of everyman." Everyman? De Rais, whose atrocities...
...mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition, the Agrègation. In 1932, with his gifted bride of a year, Tunis-born Anthropologist Georgette Fagot,* he set off for Mexico, there spent most of the next seven years in anthropological study of the Mexican Indians. By 1939 he had won a doctorate, the nickname "Jacques the Aztec," and a reputation as one of France's top experts on Mexico...
...stake, he saved his life by a Yankee trick. Knowing that a solar eclipse was imminent, he predicted the end of the world, got himself a saving reputation as a magician. Last week, with another solar eclipse imminent (April 7), another court scratched a match, lit a fagot for the Yankee from Connecticut. This time it was the Connecticut Public Welfare Council, which proclaimed: "The typical Yankee seems to be disappearing from the Connecticut scene." According to the Council, returns of the 1940 census will prove that immigrants now work Connecticut's farms, that there are more Italians...
...Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...
...invincible, brown-sinewed Nordic of her salad days. Then weariness crept up her body, dulled the edge of her fiery nerves. She lost, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. Miss Wills, champion of the U. S,. was left to face Miss McKane, Champion of Britain. Flanked with an enormous fagot of roses, the championship cup glittered on a table beside the court. Miss Mc-Kane and Miss Wills issued from the clubhouse, faced photographers, began to rally. The gallery which filled the stucco stadium was amazed to see a sort of, could it be, well nervousness in the champion...