Word: punctual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punctual, enthusiastic, pompous, slightly mischievous, Duroure has taken a new lease on life since the war began. He had been only a colonel near retirement age. "What wonderful luck," he thinks, to have been at the very age - between 50 and 65 - at which generals are made. Now he wants an Army Corps. Backed by the dubious Gurau, the rising radical young Deputy who in a previous volume subtly sold out to the oil interests and is now a cabinet minister, Duroure entertains two visiting deputies by provoking an artillery duel which goes wrong, nearly turns his little party into...