Word: lasquin
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Picture on the Wall. Aymé writes about two families, the solid upper-class Lasquins and the bohemian middle-class Ancelots. M. Lasquin, a hard-working industrialist, falls dead at lunch one day, between the trout and the duck with orange sauce. The death is rather ill-timed, for the workers at his factory are restive. Who can take his place there? His son-in-law Pierre is the natural candidate, but Pierre cares nothing for industry and responsibility, or, for that matter, for his pretty young wife, Micheline. Pierre dreams of being a track star, keeps a picture...
Meanwhile, the rest of the family fiddle at their own futilities. Pierre's wife has a tepid flirtation; Mama Lasquin is pleasantly excited to discover that the departed Papa Lasquin has had a mistress; Papa's brother-in-law appropriates the mistress...
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