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HEAD AGAINST THE WALL (255 pp.)-Hervé Bazin-Prentice-Hall...
...rakehell son is an old favorite of French fiction, and so is the mean-spirited bourgeois father who fails to understand him. From this familiar combination, a truculent French novelist named Hervé Bazin has written a fresh if uneven novel...
...precepts of life in official Washington, Congress should have reacted to a bureaucrat named Hervé L'Heureux like a fat man trying to get a burr out of his shirt. Not only does his name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag...
...ruddy-faced, stocky; pipe-smoking Hervé L'Heureux is a man who knows more about the habits, eccentricities and problems of Congressmen than most Congressmen themselves. In the 1920s, an ex-sergeant of the A.E.F., he got a job running an elevator in the Capitol, and not only transported Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge in his car, but used it as a vantage point to absorb the lore and atmosphere of Capitol Hill...
Fifty feet away from Hélène, the body of a French businessman named Hervé du Bourg was sprawled with a bullet hole between the shoulder blades...