Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...
Appearance and Reality: A suavely naughty yarn about an aging French industrialist and Senator who philosophically finds his mistress even more attractive after she marries another...
...Charles VII (the weak Charles of Joan of Arc's day). Joan has long since been burned at the stake in Rouen, but the wicked English still hold the city, and one of Jacques' jobs is to turn them out. Another is to find Charles a new mistress. Along a country road comes golden-haired Valerie Maret, beautiful in her tender innocence and tattered cloak. "By St. Martin of Tours," cries Jacques. "Remarkable! There can be no doubt about it. Yes, my argus-eyed Nicolas, this...
...story concerns the efforts of a philosophy teacher to raise money for an abortion. Filling himself with cheap liquor, the young man duns his family and friends, finally steals the money from a nightclub singer, only to be told that his mistress has decided to marry another man and have the baby. The setting is Paris in 1938. The characters are kleptomaniacs, homosexuals, heroin addicts, trollops, beachcombers of the Left Bank. They exchange mistresses, money, and a spiritual malaise which the author believes to be at the root of Europe's despair. Most of all, they share a common...
Married. Carol Hohenzollern, 53, exiled King (Carol II) of Rumania; and Elena (Magda) Lupescu, 50, his mistress of 23 years; in an "in extremis" ceremony at her Rio de Janeiro bedside where she was thought to be dying of pernicious anemia (see FOREIGN NEWS...