Word: gerfaut
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...story opens with a double funeral in the little French town of Javrezac. Mme Gerfaut has died in childbirth; Mme Devereux's longed-for infant son also. Because the two families are old friends and because one has a plethora of daughters, the other of sons. Mme Devereux becomes foster mother to little Philippe. Claude, youngest of the Devereux girls, and Philippe are brought up like brother & sister...
While Claude has settled down to live out her life on a farm, the children she grew up with have gone much further afield. All her sisters have married, all of them much better than Claude. Of the Gerfaut boys, Mark has become an imminently famous writer, Ivan an explorer; Philippe, her special chum, a sculptor. Three months after she married Ernest the World War took him, deposited him in a German prison camp for four years. The Russian Revolution swept away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then...
...sort of intellectual development, and alteration in the point of view from which men regard life. Now these changes are so various that it never occurred to us that they could be comprised under a single formula, till we stumbled across a remark in De Bernard's Gerfaut, one of the most worthless of French novels. The clown of the story has a social theory which he is constantly uttering, - that mankind is comprehende din three classes: gentilsh mmes, bourgeois, artistes, and to these he always adds, "et moi, je suis artiste." Gentilhomme, as he uses it, is equivalent...
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