Word: guerin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beckwiths invite the boy, Jean-Claude Guerin, to visit them. The tyke(Sebastian Dungan) turns out to be an E.T. figure. His personality is based entirely on his foreignness: Bob's daughter Jessica (Arlene Mclntyre) likes him because he speaks French, and Bob makes the obligatory American attempt to explain baseball to the child. And like E.T., Jean-Claude's very presence causes problems, especially for adults...
Freshman Helen Guerin, who started working for Williams in the fall, plans to start work on an individual project in a couple of weeks. She spent first semester working in the labs and in the factory and is now learning specific techniques to enable her to get started on a project. Guerin finds Williams "really nice, dynamic, and witty at teas...
...years later the bill arrives. A French acquaintance calls to say that the woman, Nicole Guerin, has been killed in an auto accident, leaving her nine-year-old son Jean-Claude an orphan. The caller is certain that Bob is the father of the child. Bob accepts paternity on rather thin evidence and is immediately skewered by a dilemma: Should he clam up and preserve the perfection of his homelife or fess up and accept responsibility for his illegitimate...
...Judge Guerin's journal, a self-serving document, claims that the rebels were plotting their own attack on the notables. The historian's only alternative source, a seemingly unbiased royal notary, makes it clear that Paumier was cold-bloodedly murdered. Judicial murder followed, as the surviving rebels were rounded up, tried, and in many cases executed. The rural leaguers were crushed several months later after joining with Huguenot forces. Royal troops killed more than 1,000 at Moirans alone - "a bloodbath," the author observes, "at least by the relatively humane standards of the time, as compared...
Paumier never becomes more than an enigmatic figure, portrayed only polemically by his foe, and inadequately by the dutiful notary. Beneath the bearskin robe he liked to wear, the rebel leader remains a shadowy image, an unmeasured mix of guile, principle and erratic power. But Guerin's journal reveals the cunning, self-righteous man who rose to the nobility on the corpse of Paumier. "In the worst possible taste," notes Le Roy Ladurie, the unabashed judge chose as his coat of arms an uprooted apple tree - in French, a pommier...