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In early‑twentieth‑century Paris, eleven‑year‑old Roger “Gégé” Taillard watches his parents’ fragile marriage teeter on the edge of collapse. The household hums with everyday rituals—dinners, trips to the Nouveau‑Cirque—and the boy’s routine is punctuated by an uneasy anticipation that something may go wrong at any moment. Through his observant eyes we sense a quiet desperation that lies beneath the polite veneer of family life.
When Lucie Taillard reluctantly accepts the attentions of the steady but uninspired engineer Alcide Barbier, the fragile balance of the marriage begins to crack. Jacques, ever‑present but emotionally distant, retreats into his work, leaving his wife to wrestle with loneliness and restless longing. As the evening unfolds, the tension builds toward an unsettling event that will cast the family into an unforeseen crisis, setting the stage for a story where innocence and suspicion intertwine.
Language
fr
Duration
~2 hours (128K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Clarity, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Release date
2016-03-05
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1864–1939
Best known in French letters for sharp, witty criticism, this Paris-born writer also moved easily between novels and plays. His work carries a lively, ironic tone that made him a recognizable literary voice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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