Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BERNARD QUESNAY is the story of the enslavement of a man to his family tradition. Bernard Quesnay is a middle-class Frenchman who returns from the war to become a partner in his grandfather's cloth mills in Normandy. He is an ardent, artistic youth whose spirit revolts at the thought of spending life in bondage to industrialism...
...Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE...
...Look at me! [finger wagging), look into the eyes of a Frenchman! [wagging more slowly] Will you not shout...
...mais oui!" shouted the Abbe Haegy suddenly, "I am French! VIVE!! VIVE LA FRANCE!! ... I withdraw my suit. . . . VIVE LA FRANCE!! . . . Look into my eyes, Monsieur, the eyes of a Frenchman, I swear it! VIVE LA FRANCE...
...Frenchman was an extreme outsider at the time, his chance for the title being considered a 30-to-1 shot. Subsequently and presumably without wine he provided the tournament with its sensation by winning his match from Willie Hoppe, defending champion...