Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France there is only one current guillotine knife, although there are many scaffolds. Therefore M. de Paris has to travel, sometimes to Marseilles to decapitate a taker of virginities, sometimes to Rouen to speed a parting fratricide. He is a traveling salesman of Death. His salary until last week was a paltry...
...Previously he was an assistant professor at the Rouen School of Medicine...
...reception given by the Havre section of the League Maritime et Coloniale Francaise July 21, and will be in Paris and its vicinity for several days thereafter. July 26 and 27 will be spent in travelling to and staying at Bouafles and Les Andelys. After a reception by the Rouen section of the League Maritime et Coloniale Francaise given the travelling students on July 28, the party will sail from Havre for New York, arriving back in this country on August...
...Special social events are prepared in Rouen, Amiens, Lille, Ypres, Brussels, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basle, Geneva, Grenoble, Nice, Avignon, and Paris. Owing to the voluntary participation of Europeans and the private hospitality extended, an exceptionally low cost covers the twelve weeks' trip...
That is the prehistory of the story's chaotic opening at his base camp in Rouen. He is seen as a tireless, compassionate company commander, faithfully inspecting his men's feet and toothbrushes, writing their complicated little wills, guarding them from and for their women. Through labyrinths of official tape, thickets of superior and subordinate officers' personalities, swamps of physical obstacles, weather, food, transportation, equipment, his mind and nerves are shown maintaining their stability, and threading at the same time the dark jungles of his own inward life. Over all is the shadow of the major obscenity in the trenches...