“The emergency services had not yet been organized. Rosine could go where she wished. Her high heels made her stumble in the darkness, over the stones, the frozen clods of soil, over the tussocks of grass, the countless obstacles of… — 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
