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The Farneau-Michel Doré

MICHAEL GOLDEN - THE PLESSIS-FARNEAU - Tome Premier - La Boulange - Roman editions of La Fontaine 290 pages 20 E
Every family has its story, which is not necessarily tragic. Punctuated by births and deaths, engagements, wedding of, for relevailles, each unfolds, boring or exciting, sad or happy. Both families
Farneau Plessis and operate in different social circles. They do not show the same feelings and reactions to the same events. Yet the fact random cross, sometimes without their noticing, not suspecting that perhaps later he meets.
families are people. Mothers and daughters, mischievous children or charming, rich uncles or without money, relatives from afar day
burial ... The characters are fictitious Farneau Plessis, born from the imagination of the author, and their actions. Their geographic framework is described. The era is dated: the years 1931 to 1940, over the ten chapters of the first volume of this saga.
The author, head of industrial projects, engineering self-taught, traveled to many foreign countries, in reporting the number of images and instructive. However, here is the heart of his native country he leads us in those countries where the Beauce intertwined with Hurepoix and Gâtinais. EXTRACT

Valpré ... The village is planted on the slope, right bank of Valona. Between the river and the plateau, twenty meters above, were piled like mountain homes and their gardens and fields, woods, and a few rocks. The left bank was spread in its flatness flooded meadows in the spring. The village, so it looked, and had named these waters for centuries: Vaupré, Vaupré, Valpré.
The laundry at the foot of the thalweg of the source, simple shelter forty feet by twenty, wearing an old roof of small clay tiles of the country. It chattered farm. Little profanity or disputes. The women arrived with a wheelbarrow, laundry, shopping bags filled with straw and the bat. The conversations went on children, school, cost of living, hence the man's work and then its value at work, in bed ...
voices strong consensus sometimes outside the Cafe du Chemin des Prés. Sautet's mother, who held him, it had its pedestal round and rusty skilfully to benefit some customers. It suited him well, his recipe to round off-peak hours, because the steam is made usually in the morning. She held his ugly head in an array of large settees whose sharp words could go up to his table, knowing in advance by the fortnight to come, and better able to tell the prowess of their husbands
EXTRACT ... We do not know why the lawyer rejected the appointment again. The two women then went to study the first Monday in June, difficulty for Teresa. In addition to a driver, is the conclusion that the business was.
In the waiting room ... There was no waiting room ... Served that a large rectangular space, cold as a high ceiling, walls lined with green furniture cartoonists. Three employees, a man and two women, access to the highest by a thin wooden ladder. Three typewriters crackled regularly, tracing their gusts made formulas in the face of future heirs.
Master Potter, of uncertain age: thirty-faced, fifty stomach, brought them into his office with a double padded door, tight family secrets and disputes post-mortem. He begged them to sit on simple chairs arranged here as he sank into her soft, deep leather chair.
In this small square room floor of old brown oak flooring, no windows, low ceilings and very heated, and although no airflow there could enter, yet he wore the vest under his suit thick. His chubby hands and short papers quickly searched. Then as he spoke to himself, of "subrogation" to "deceased", "alienation" to "preciput »..., notwithstanding the difficulty of assimilation of its clients. But they understood that a file "intestate" without a will, is more easily treated for a lawyer, since the law was doing so, a folder apply to wills another law, the family!