The Free Frenchman
by Read, Piers Paul
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-Collectible/Near Fine
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Random House, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Very Good-Collectible/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5" 584 pgs. 2nd printing w/number line. Sea grass green boards w/gold foil initials on front. Navy cloth spine w/gold foil letters. Designed by Bernard Klein. DJ design by Paul Bacon. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. PO book plate on ffep. Light foxing on front board. Crease to front flap. A young high-flying French civil servant, Bertrand de Roujay, from a conservative family in Provence, marries Madeleine Bonnet, the daughter of a free-thinking academic. The mothers of the young couple had been childhood friends, but the differences in outlook of the children are exacerbated by the political polarisation that has come over France at the time. We are in the 1930s with Communists and fascists fighting in the streets. The marriage does not last and France goes to war. Bertrand, now a Prefect, is refused permission to join the army; but after France's defeat and the armistice with the Germans, he decides that he cannot serve under Marshal Petain. He escapes over the Pyrenees and eventually reaches London where he places himself at the disposal of General de Gaulle.
Bertrand's life in France has introduced the reader to spies, priests, academics, criminals, politicians, prostitutes, policemen and refugees from the Spanish Civil War. In London, he becomes involved with the English and, when sent back to France by de Gaulle, with the different factions in the French Resistance. Bertrand becomes enmeshed in political infighting and mired in moral paradox as the story proceeds to a dramatic denouement.
Awarded the Enid McLeod Literary Prize by the Franco-British Society.
Bertrand's life in France has introduced the reader to spies, priests, academics, criminals, politicians, prostitutes, policemen and refugees from the Spanish Civil War. In London, he becomes involved with the English and, when sent back to France by de Gaulle, with the different factions in the French Resistance. Bertrand becomes enmeshed in political infighting and mired in moral paradox as the story proceeds to a dramatic denouement.
Awarded the Enid McLeod Literary Prize by the Franco-British Society.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14304
- Title
- The Free Frenchman
- Author
- Read, Piers Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-Collectible
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1986
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