Word: maloret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpleasant fact is that during the Franco-Prussian War Honoré Haudouin was forced to lie quietly under his mother's bed while a Prussian sergeant had his way with her. Convinced that Zèphe Maloret sent the Prussians there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking...
Things become even more difficult when the classic Romeo-and-Juliet aspect of feuds crops up in the love affair of Honoré's daughter and Maloret's son. The complications, always hilarious and elaborated with much Ayméan gusto, come thick and fast. But Honoré, the soul of goodness and absolutely free of guile, cannot live down the need for revenge. In the last Rabelaisian scene he stuffs...
...Maloret into a closet, knocks out his son and pushes him under the bed, and takes Madame Maloret. Gallic irony: the lady is delighted...
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