Word: phane
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...bert, struggling up the road to recovery, falls in love with a nurse named Jany. Old Max sinks deeper into his fantasies. Coselh spends days weeping over the portrait of his son, "little Guy Charles Stéphane Coselli''-though he has no son. Coselli does have a wife, however: the nurse Jany, who has come to work in the hospital to be near him. Tangled together in their nightmares and obsessions, Bébert and Coselli make their escape from the hospital, frantically trying to assert themselves as free...
...official luncheon in Chicago, Father Bruckberger appeared with a strip of red Cello phane tucked in his lapel. "Legion of Honor?" asked the French consul. "No," answered Bruck berger, "Lucky Strike...
...phane and Onésime Sabatier, a pair of broad-boned, high-cheeked young Huguenots, wanted respectively to be prosperous merchant and artist. Both started well, as Onésime eloped with his rich cousin, Cécile Renouvier, and Stéphane got Cécile's paunchy, grandiose father to back a Marseille importing firm for him. The brothers' ambitions were reversed when his wife's money gradually converted Onésime into a comfortable bourgeois and Stéphane, after being ruined in business by bulbous-eyed Solomon Lévy-Ruhlmann, turned...
...Painter and The Lady develops, Author Blake (who dedicates it to Ralph Fox, killed fighting for Republican Spain) submerges his characters in the rising tide of the Front Populaire. Stéphane returns to Marseille as an active Communist, and after Lévy-Ruhlmann's murder, is wrongly accused of the crime and convicted. Novel's end comes in June 1936, the month the Front Populaire took office, with Stéphane's execution a dark symbol foreshadowing the political schisms that are to follow...
...Republic of France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated the théâtre with his pictures; Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays; Stéphane Mallarmé recited Poe's Raven in French. By the time the scenery was paid for there was just enough money left to buy Poet Verlaine 30 drinks of absinthe. Painter Gauguin sold his pictures at auction, went to Tahiti anyway...