Word: guilloux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wickedness of Paris has been a preoccupation of French novelists ever since Rabelais. But if the new generation of French novelists is to be trusted, Paris is austere compared with the provinces. In books like Guilloux's Bitter Victory, Romains' The Proud and the Meek, the small cities of the Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion...
...Paris 65-year-old Henri Guilloux, cautious chauffeur to the late King Edward VII of England, suddenly ran amok, murdered a neighbor, hanged his wife, killed himself...
BITTER VICTORY-Louis Guilloux-McBride...
BITTER VICTORY-Louis Guilloux-Mc-Bride...