“To her despair was added a philosophical dejection, the feeling of every thinker who, venturing an inquisitive finger beneath the velvet of a throne, comes upon the coarse pinewood . . . And then it was she fell victim to… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“The emergency services had not yet been organized. Rosine could go where she wished. Her high heels made her stumble in the darkness, over… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying images . .… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that invention that freezes sounds, just as Francois Rabelais had so clownishly imagined! Was it necessary that,… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“To her despair was added a philosophical dejection, the feeling of every thinker who, venturing an inquisitive finger beneath the velvet of a throne,… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
