Word: pantevin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Literary men," Costals caustically observes, "attract crazy women the way a lump of rotten meat collects flies." And Costals is, indeed, a man much beset by marriage-minded females, most of whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises her to see her priest, she goes mad. Another, Andrée Hacquebaut, sets a new record in passionate penmanship for the mails (some 200 letters over a period of two years), first...
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