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...PASQUIER CHRONICLES-Georges Duhamel-Holt...
...Frenchman had written The Forsyte Saga, that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel...
...first 290 pages, explaining the tangled circumstances of the family inheritance, are dull. The next 200 pages are better. The emotional, shrinking, 15-year-old Laurent Pasquier discovers that his father is keeping a woman, calls on her to ask that she give up the old man. When he is tricked by both the mistress and his father, Laurent denounces him, is dumfounded to learn that everybody knows about this affair and many others besides. The oldest boy, Joseph, escapes the family by turning himself into a money-making machine; the dull and stupid Ferdinand marries a girl as secretive...
...Pasquier Chronicles contains incidents and implications that Galsworthy would not have touched with a ten-foot pole, it also contains ironic flashes equally foreign to the Englishman. Papa Pasquier, with his tempers, girls and moralizing lectures, studying to be a doctor in his middle age, buying automobiles that he cannot drive or pay for, lecturing strangers for their impoliteness in yawning in public, messing up the affairs of his whole family without an instant's remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author...
...look sullen. Bao Dai spent his life from 9 to 19 in Europe, where he had let himself be crammed with a good French education and good French politics. When he was 19 he was shipped back to Annam and Annam's real boss. French Governor General Pierre Pasquier, ushered him into the sacred Red City (TIME. Oct. 3, 1932). Bao Dai understood that he was to stay there, remote and mysterious to his people. His ancestors set the example; the French gave the orders...