Word: fran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head of a three-story household whose floors, reading from top to bottom, were occupied by 1) his mother, 2) his wife and daughter Françoise, and 3) his mistress Simone...
...Helping Hand. Simone, a stocky dressmaker in her late '40s, was as ugly as Marie-Claire was pretty, but she was an obliging sort who was always glad to pitch in and stitch up a dress for Françoise, to cook a meal, or to give old mother Evenou a hand with the household chores. Besides, as the doctor himself told a friend, "she may not be beautiful, but she knows how to love." For some months things went along swimmingly. Then, as a man with too much often will. Dr. Evenou grew bored. "My first two wives...
...took up this venerable museum work, turned it over like an old coat, recut it and adjusted it to his own measurements." Painted in 1954-55, the exercise was also Picasso's way of working off the melancholy caused by the departure of his companion of eight years, Françoise Gilot, who one day suddenly left, taking their two children with her, announcing: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...
SOUND OF A DISTANT HORN, by Sven Stolpe (301 pp.; Sheed & Ward; $3.95), is within echoing distance of the works of François Mauriac and Graham Greene, in which anguished would-believers are pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve...
Avoiding Excesses. Simon's book drew a supporting protest from Nobel Prize-winning Roman Catholic Novelist Fran-gois Mauriac, followed by a solemn declaration signed by all French Catholic cardinals and archbishops warning "all those whose mission it is to protect persons and things" that "in the present crisis" they "have the obligation to respect human dignity and rigorously to avoid all excesses contrary to the law of nature...