Cecile among us

Cécile among us is the seventh volume written in 1938 by Georges Duhamel in his Chronique of Pasquier .

Summary

In 1913, Laurent Pasquier now begins his career of researcher independent in the field of the development of the vaccines. His/her sister Cecile, puts it a little her career of pianist between brackets, and devotes herself to her young child whom it had with Richard Fauvet, a hypochondriac and pretentious philosopher that it does not manage to like and who gradually is diverted of it. The father, Raymond Pasquier in search of recognition and notoriety, starts to dream to be able to write a book with success. The groin of the brothers Pasquier, Joseph, more than ever in the businesses and the speculation, plays the secret intermediary in the sale of ammunition provides by Germany, however officially support of the Ottoman Empire, with Bulgarian at the time of the First War Balkan. It tries to handle the public opinion, thanks to its journalistic relations and by influencing intellectuals (of which Richard Fauvet), on be-saying défectieuses English ammunition provided to the Bulgarian troops. Cecile, all devoted to her child, and making the mourning of the brilliant career of concert performer who awaited it, are discovered a mystical fault and turn to God. The sudden death and brutal of his/her son cherished, of a specticemy not diagnosed in time, will boulversera finally the life of the young woman.

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