Word: hacquebaut
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...whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises her to see her priest, she goes mad. Another, Andrée Hacquebaut, sets a new record in passionate penmanship for the mails (some 200 letters over a period of two years), first offering Costals her provincial, literate, blue-stocking soul and finally her awkward 30-year-old body...
...same time Costals tries to cure provincial, affected Andrée Hacquebaut of her love for him, insults her, tears up her letters, considers pushing her under a passing automobile, and almost walks the legs off her when she visits him in Paris. Although he gets Solange, and gets Andrée, both triumphs cost so much misery that even male readers are to have a low opinion of Costals by the time wins them. Their opinion might be even lower, Author de Montherlant implies, were they unable to find comparable cruelty somewhere in the history of their own love...
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