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...people of France have sent us a message, transcending all censorship; they have just said to us, clear and loud, if we but knew: 'We are with you still. No Frenchman, only a Laval, could be found to do this dirty thing...
Brittle Arteries. "An angry well-dressed Frenchman about fifty years of age, who looked out of place on the rue de la Huchette, was pummeling with his folded umbrella a young man who bore him a strong family resemblance." The young man fled into the Hotel du Caveau. His name was Pierre Vautier. It turned out that he had defied his father by quitting St. Cyr (the French West Point) and taking a job in an art gallery. "It was a small gallery that specialized in ultramodern paintings of the neo-Cubistic school, the sight or mention of which...
Tyler stressed the fact that no matter how courageous the physical and spiritual resistance of the people, it must be nourished by assurances from America that we appreciate the Frenchman's problems, and will spare nothing to beat the Nazis...
This book, by the tireless fabricator of Men of Good Will, is not one of the series; it is a graceful little vacation-piece on the old subject of The Visiting Foreigner. This time the foreigner is no charmer of women's clubs but a likable middle-aged Frenchman, the exiled professor Albert Salsette. He gets to Manhattan in the spring of 1941, and his old friend Jules Remains shows him around. They see little of that world outside Greater New York. But as far as they go, their sharp eyes, fresh minds and Gallic talent for analysis...
...trial is so grievous that no Frenchman can think of it without emotion, regret and sadness. Whatever may be the fault or the crime ... all France bears the weight...