Word: hacquebaut
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...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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