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Title

Lieutenant-colonel de Maumort / Roger Martin du Gard ; translated by Luc Brébion and Timothy Crouse.

Author

Martin Du Gard, Roger, 1881-1958

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Brébion, Luc
• Crouse, Timothy

Description

xxxi, 777 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The unfinished memoir of a French soldier-philosopher. While describing bourgeois life in France before and after World War I, he ruminates on the futility of individual conscience in the face of evil.

Uniform Title

Lieutenant-colonel de Maumort. English

Alternative Title

Lieutenant-colonel de Maumort.

Subject

• 1870-1945
• Nobility > France > Fiction
• French fiction > Translations into English
• France > Intellectual life > Fiction
• France > History > Third Republic, 1870-1940 > Fiction
• France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• History
• Translations
• Historical fiction

Contents

Foreword / Andre Daspre -- Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort -- Summary of Maumort's Biography -- Memoirs of Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort -- Childhood and Adolescence (1870-1887) -- The Origins of the Maumort Family -- Early Childhood -- The Pond with the Girls. The Abbe Adry -- Guy at le Saillant -- Xavier de Balcourt at le Saillant -- Year of Rhetorique at Saint-Leonard -- At the Nacquots' -- The Year of Philosophie -- Early Adulthood (1887-1891) -- The Chambost-Levades: Uncle Eric -- The Chambost-Levades: Aunt Ma -- The Intellectual World of Paris around 1890 -- Xavier de Balcourt in Paris -- The Drowning -- Life as a Student in Paris -- The Hectors -- Blaise Saint-Gall and His Family -- Doudou -- Beginnings in the Army. Marriage (1891-1907) -- Claire Saint-Gall. The Marriage -- The Marriage of Henriette -- The Story of Emma -- The Campaigns in Morocco (1907-1914) -- Lyautey and Morocco -- Maumort's Life in the Military -- Maumort the Colonial Officer -- Maumort's Memories of Fez -- Lyautey -- Maumort, Military Life, War -- World War II (1939-1945) -- Maumort During the Defeat and Occupation (1940) -- The Invasion of le Saillant -- Maumort and the Nazis -- Rupert Gralt -- Maumort and his guests -- Kert -- Weissmuller -- Hatred of Germany. Atrocities in the Nazi Camps -- Conventional Doctrines of the General Staff -- The True Nature of the Resistance: Indignation -- What the Diary Was: A Diary of a Happy Man -- His End -- Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort (31 December 1944-January 1945) -- Letters to Gevresin.

ISBN

067943397X

LCCN

^^^98050912^

OCLC

• 40298554
• SCSB-11994637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library