Word: pasquiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultivated as a literary salon, France's Ministry of Information this week was jampacked with authors of bestsellers, turning out communiques of cadenced sentences and well-chosen phrases. Handling world-wide radio broadcasts was heavy, bespectacled, sentimental Georges Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting...
MOZART: QUARTET IN E FLAT FOR PIANO & STRINGS (Hortense Monath and the Pasquier Trio; Victor: 6 parts). Fine-grained, carefully-tooled performance of one of Mozart's important, though seldom played, compositions...
...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...