Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young French Airman Jean-Louis Tournier, like a character out of Dumas, lived only for revenge-revenge for an indignity practiced upon him in a New York bar two years ago when a group of G.I.s got friendly with him, went along with him to his hotel room, and disappeared with all his possessions. Jean-Louis Tournier, having returned from his U.S. Air Force training, conceived a neat way to get even...
...strike up a conversation in excellent English. "In France," he would say, "we consider the numbers 1 and 10 unlucky. I hope your hotel room bears a lucky number." Falling into the trap, the G.I., like as not, would tell his room number. After that, it was nothing for Jean-Louis to pose as the G.I. over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then collect the suitcases, drive to the river and dump them in. It pleased...
Premier Faure was shocked. Special detectives from Paris arrested the man suspected of organizing the White Terror. He proved to be Chief Inspector Jean Delrieu, formerly head of the Casablanca police department charged with combatting Arab terrorism. Faure called a Cabinet meeting, then put in a call to the Saar. He wanted to speak to Gilbert Grandval...
...FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by Jean Bloch-Michel (215 pp.; Scrlbner; $3) is the story of Pierre, his wife and children-fugitives from an unnamed city in an unnamed war. They settled in a distant Alpine village where only lost and famished animals roamed the streets; the human inhabitants had been driven into slavery by the enemy. It was like being the last people on earth. But Pierre's family was no cheerful, God-fearing Swiss Family Robinson. They had no religion, no clear rules for living. Down below, Pierre knew, men were fighting and dying. Did he have...
...Flight into Egypt is a book of ideas by a man of action. Author Jean Bloch-Michel, 43, was a French soldier in World War II and a resistance fighter. But in this book, war is simply used as a dark backdrop for the drama of a family, stripped to its barest elements-man, woman, boy, girl. Their problems are ordinary, but there is no chance for the ordinary relief from them-the distractions and consolations of society. Pierre and Yvonne feel isolated even from each other. The children become alien to them, withdraw into themselves...