CHAPTER I "One is not born a woman. It becomes ... " Simone de Beauvoir
Father Andre Miramont Dessessart of" The Society of Jesus, "rang-fried despite the pale spring sunshine, a start of a climate even in winter. He threw his jacket on the bed, a stark anthracite, silver cross which indicated the priesthood to spill into a plush sofa in a plush hotel Scandinavian "without chewing." The quiet room perpetuated the crash relieved by receptions for the award of "Model" in Organization Nongovernmental he founded. Memorable ceremony! A monumental setting, supposedly without ostentation. Fervor of an audience gathered in front sententious speeches. Chamarrées held. Eager crowd, invasive ... and the inevitable carousel gourmet! Pantomimes negligible: gluttony, clenched smiles, swirls intractable, which prolonged their disparate ovations resonance cons his temples ...
inaccessible serenity - unlikely in a state of mind just expectation ... eyes closed, seeking refuge ... the center of all these shadows barely grazed, a figure beamed. Dimmed in this mediocre piece puzzle? The nagging question: "Why is Anne-Flore not she come? . Oh, it was not a breach of decorum!
Friendship emerged in poverty: the Second World War. Andre's mother was born "Castel Peyriac" in 1940, Miramont Dessessart retreated in the eponymous town, (near Pau), Free Zone, where she had lived her youth. A girl, Anne-Flore, was entrusted them. His parents, Frederick and Wilhelmina Castel Peyriac (uncle and aunt Andre barely knew), participated Resistance to various networks, throughout the region, causing the junior Pascal and Solange (from the first marriage of Frederick with a Corsican, Laetitia Casanova). Two years later, Anne-Flore became an orphan ... What's most affected vocals, for an adolescent child: help a "little sister" of which he still felt responsible! Her cousin did not know since his return from Africa.
Obedient, Andre returned to France after a jeep accident on the African trails. Forbidding any one year attached, almost continuously, to the hospital to heal the scars. It added the chore to move with a cane and latitude, lavished on his mother, a nurse inflexible. Anne-Flore, uneven information passed through his half-brother and sister twins and Solange Pascal Castel Peyriac. Substances that fanned the separation ... Apply to not give in singing voice, radiant spirit ... stolen for too long! The seminar and its involvement in the Third World exiled the spell of memories ...
No more annoying ... does beg the concierge for a problem through phone! Anne-Flore warned (the chance of hearing failed him): it was Romania, trainee journalist, escorting the trip of General de Gaulle in May 1968 prevented it from obtaining the correspondence to Stockholm by the strikes? ...
Prosecutors chirping like a thunderclap. It touched the door. The Marquise Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart, his mother, entered with his son. She exhaled
such a nature that the Olympian "Brigadier" (the theater) could have been hit ... The undeniable beauty transcends age, abundant white hair, embedded in a strict hairstyle - but fashion designer toiletries - which contrasted with a face with features yet so pure that it detected the Nitescence a porcelain doll. Elegant, the Marquise exulted,:
- "Andrew, my son! What an apotheosis! Finally Miramont Dessessart returning History! . Voila! He could not shirk: outpouring, ignited exegesis! Broken, Andre stammered
- "Mother, this triumphant tone ..." A phone call
added frustration: not yet Anne-Flore!
The Marquise Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart - outran his son, took down and began a painstaking description of Homeric episodes for " an impecunious relatives "not beholden to the" sublime solemnity. " Nothing was neglected, or private dinner with the king (the shiny gold and clothing), or high praise on his son, nor the renunciation of the cassock of the latter for his message! Andre impatient! line inevitably employed in case Anne-Flore ... Her mother had the happy intuition and shortened his bravura ...
- "No, mother, I'm not tired! I am tired! See the fight against hunger deploy in frivolities! "
" Life in the bush has made you a misanthrope ... . She stood up:
- "God marks us such a blessing! ... .
Andrew interrupted him in a tone almost pleading:
- "Mother! I beg you! "
-" In truth, my eyes have seen during my tour in Africa, a whole village, the chapel, clinic, school: it was said that your valor had literally built with his bare hands! "
-" This is just a drop of water! ... "According to the principles
maternal clay structures were the tables in accordance villas for these" poor wretches ". Native Energy, which in reality had personally built the huts, being totally ignored ...
- "A drop of water? ! ... You omit the prestige growing your priesthood before the French news! What an example for all these microbes communists who set up barricades because, in the university, they were, decently, blocked access to the bedrooms of young girls! This lax if de Gaulle, who has already lost Algeria, its mess turns against him! As for us, agree-in: the immanent divine justice we re-rank our li! "At
simple statement:" our position, "Andrew admitted the exordium a controversy which Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart had the secret - and assume a right. Fascinating actress, setting itself up with a suitable atticism best "uses mundane! Andre wipe it, moreover many splinters? Absorbed by the turbulence of the ceremonial "official", he had buried the splinter ...
- "I will not follow you on this field" he asserted in a neutral tone, access to the minefield.
too upset, the Marquise scattered his inspirations:
- "Power, again, stand tall! Fix this unfair trial inflicted your father, the general, who had crowned his office Christian fighting Bolshevik barbarism! "
-" I hope he repented! "Andre
just touched, despite his initial vow that should remain with the swords sheathed, his mother had a high body reflecting the magnitude of the shock ... and faced his son.
- "Repent! ... Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII himself ... "
" You persist even in these aberrations? Father has betrayed his country ... "
-" The communist country! ! "Apparition
corrosive spectrum" Ante Christ, "flooding Andre a fever that he could see nothing! access temperature or expectation of the phone, without even the desire to untangle the issue of such a heroic service ... in the eternal skirmish to persuade his mother that General Mira Monte Dessessart was duly punished for high treason during World War II, for fighting, under the SS uniform on the Russian front.
What a surprise! She collapsed in a chair giving free rein to wet secrets. so unusual at the Marquise, perpetually driven by the severity of the label:
- "A Priest also hardened to his mom! No, do not cry out! The faded-sour, definitely purified, let me reveal this untold pain: the martyrdom suffered by your father - and mine! So many slights uttered by the quail-ra! A citadel dating back to Hugh Capet, the legendary land confiscated as if it were a rogue citizen who has not paid his rent! Reduced to a line of financial embarrassment infamy! ... Unbelievable! Not be received! ... "
unprecedented situation, among them: he merely adjust control. Disgust in his heart, before this amalgam of such forfeiture and money worries invented, but too deferential at times and shot to revolt ...
The phone rings again: a bottomless remission. Rushing, hampered by his cane, his mother again forestalled with dexterity ... he heard the name sighed!
- "Anne-Flore! It's you! ? ... Your eclipse singularity more! Pascal himself was there! ... What, no plane to Stockholm? What strikes? All journalists who flanked the General de Gaulle in Romania and was attended ! ... How? I hope we will be at Castel Peyriac! ... . When
deigned return the handset to his son, the line was cut off:
- "I assure you, Andre, I am delighted, weighted with the test! ... "
-" What test? "
-" The shortcomings of the phone have prevented thee: he was demanding an apology before this outburst. "
-" What a freak? "
-" Unthinkable casually! relieved of his duties by his absence! "Andre
supported all mitigating ... Advocate inconsistent ! He dismissed that conclusion ruthless
- "Nonsense! The whole universe cries out your praise while it has evaporated! "
Disarmed, he allowed himself to whisper:
-" Anne-Flore is a small and so thin, so vulnerable ... Has it always her slender teenage? "...
-" Overweight falls to age! Today, journalism becomes, for a time, his pastime! "Andre
rose with great difficulty. Icy politeness stumbled:
- "Why so intolerant of your niece? "
-" Because we do have not quite quelled when we deposed his father - a stain! The priest you are expected to condemn the heathen who married civilly a theater people, barely older than her twin. "
-" This "pagan", your brother, Frederic Castel Peyriac lion who died in resistant? And Aunt Wilhelmina luminous actress of the Comedie-French - who died alongside him. "
-" Terrorists! ... "
-" From Resistance immortal! History has judged and you ... "
-" What is history, before God? "
-" The ultimate decision is up him. I would be very grateful for your bond exempt my own dogma! "
-" Clemence inexplicable to enemies! ... "
-" Jesus said "Love your enemies."
- "fetid council," Vatican II, "blew out the incongruities of the most frightening! "Before this
disavowal of the Holy Spirit, Andre could not control himself, he smashed the rod load whose audacity inflict silence:
-" Your resentment feed suspicions threatening my uncle, Bishop Jean-Marie Miramont Dessessart which gave the parents of Anne-Flore! .
- "What! ? You dare say this sacrilege! ? "
-" Your bigotry require an unblemished integrity ... "
-" And I blame you! Do you know, at least, the shamelessness of your cousin? And his divorce from Sorelles Augustine, a conductor so famous - your response ...? "
-" I'm the minister of divine mercy. "
-" A mortal sin! "
-" You jest! They detested a sacrament of marriage. Christ does not want the death of the sinner. "
- 'So Hell is empty? "
-" You substitute yourself to God? "
-" Your kindness will exacerbate nothing. Its very serious mistakes "... Hang
controversy! Andrew, faced him for a fall more aggressive steadying his voice
- "Mother! The priest speaks to you: you blame your immodesty exorbitant and this lack of Christian charity. I advocate meditation in your prayers. My absolution is the price. "
After a pause, he added, instinctively
-" I beseech you to read and meditate on this text of St. Paul "he intoned pianissimo: The hymn to love in Chapter 13, First Letter Corinthians.
" If I speak in tongues,
that of men and of angels,
if I miss the love, I'm
a metal that resonates
a tinkling cymbal.
When I have the gift of prophecy, science
all mysteries
and all knowledge,
when I have more faith the total
which transports mountains
if I miss the love I am nothing.
Love is patience, love
disservice,
he is not jealous, it does
boastful,
it swells up with pride,
it does nothing ugly
it does not seek its own interest,
it is not irritable,
he has no hard feelings,
6 it does not rejoice at injustice
but he finds rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things. "Andre
spelled slowly, despite the irritability of her mother ... and ventured to the pre-dominance with a blessing ... expeditious Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart seemed to understand that it should close the dispute. She won:
- "My son thinks rather to improve your health so precious to all! . Disaggregated
, Andre does not even perceived maternal death atmosphere. Reduced to thank heaven that he taught this constancy save his coolness in battle without end or thank you! Baffled by these squalls unbreakable ... So much animosity which his filial deference never dug up the decisive dogmatic scheme. Felony almost paternal him to withdraw the price "model" not accepting that support for "his" Non-Governmental Organization ... He blamed himself, above all, tardy complaints about "embarrassment budget . She unfolded prosperity known: his Swiss bank accounts and lavish hospitality of his nephews Castel Peyriac. However, nothing could stop the Marquise to rehabilitate these assets in receivership. Essarts and dispose prosperous land in the public - what profanation!
progressive learning the manners in the nineteenth century, the opulent fullness of Miramont Dessessart rested on a double strategy. Roundabout teeming with intrigue: the particle was more scarcity, the more we rushed on speculation brought about by the industrial revolution. Alliance with the shields manufacturers from the European big business: watering of cash, property or other Parisians balances in a tax haven. Thus provisioned, we frame the infiltration of "high function" ... Their elevation Plenipotentiary passed legitimizing "Dignity" vested!
The meeting, assured, with Anne-Flore Castel Peyriac, spread a little balm on shocks endured. Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart had, in advance, obscured the euphoria
- "You see yourself, you'll see the kind of attention that was to me. Especially in the presence of Anne-Flore strutting his whim now: a Turkish Muslim and Communist! Me, I'm gagged! Even after I pass this heretic, Theophilus Figner.
Andrew lay on his bed, viscerally coiling, like a wounded animal, without changing not to bully a sore body. Through the windows of her window a moon seemed farfetched to taunt him by reminding him of the passion of his cousin Anne-Flore for moonlight ... As he swung toward Castel Peyriac ... "glades bucolic" .. . "A Paris" in the Province as felt, then, Andre Miramont Dessessart Castel-Peyriac, situated close to Pau: So, about a hundred miles from the Atlantic Ocean and miles away from the Pyrenees. Spain, fifty miles as the crow flies, easily accessible via Gan Oloron then, by the neck ... Somport Cavalcades riding through this extraordinary landscape : The Pyrenees as a mail ... "Pau is the most beautiful view of the world's land as Naples is the most beautiful sea view." (Lamartine).
Castel Peyriac flourishing property adjoining the town namesake, called "castle", in homage to the medieval dungeon abandoned land in the middle, carefully enclosed in spacious modern mansion by the buyers. The fable told of the epic: a "Volunteer of the Year II - named Peyriac: gloriously his military career under Napoleon allowed him to negotiate these fields where his ancestors had been slaves ... Count Pascal Castel Peyriac tasted this series he did outpour. The noun "Castel", added to Peyriac, crowned the social ladder. The Peyriac, established in Paris in the eighteenth century cleared the Third Estate protagonist of the Revolution (1789). Yet if Castel Peyriac was spreading very wealthy, thanks to the sword under Napoleon 1-Enlightenment fashioned bulk of the dower masters. The episode passed, intellectuals emerged. Moreover, their fellow citizens elected mayor since the Second Empire.
[[As for the atmosphere, the author include "The Confessions A Child of the Century "(Musset):" ... Designed between battles, reared in colleges rolling drums, thousands of children looked at each other, a dark eye, trying their puny muscles. From time to time their fathers bloody appeared, raised on their chests gaudy gold, then rested on the ground and went back to horse ... Then sat on a world in ruins an anxious youth. All these children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the land: they were born into war, for war. They had dreamed for fifteen snow years in Moscow and the Pyramid of the sun ... "]]
Deriving the younger branch, Castel Peyriac Victor, died in 1942 of a heart attack at the same time as his son, Frederick, in the Resistance. Installed a long time in Paris, he rarely returned to Gascony. Lawyer, like his great-grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Castel Peyriac, revered ancestor who excelled alongside the Communards in 1871 ... Victor Castel Peyriac had married very young, on a thunderbolt, a sparkling English, Maria Ines Hoyos de Aguilar (a relative of the Empress Eugenie), Catholic fierce. Of the seven children they had, two died in infancy, and Cyprian died in Tonkin, and Blanche, at age 16, succumbed to tuberculosis. Probably afflicted by these deaths, Maria-Ines Castel-coveted Peyriac she married high for the girl who had left, Marie-Estelle. The Marquis Héricbert Miramont Dessessart, provided with a brother clergyman and ascending Templars, proved the perfect son. While the eldest, Alfonso, preferring to inherit land, Frederic am aspired to Paris-inhibitions. Free after the Great War, his first wife, Laetitia Casanova (Original Corsican) who died in childbirth of twins, Pascal, and Solange, while he fought in the trenches. Tenacious, moreover, is as-I, lost at heart, a new household by marrying the stunning Austrian Wilhelmina ac-ordinator: Frédéric Castel Peyriac wanderings through Germany and Austria after the war, maintained by Articles. He founded a publishing house, "Signatures" policy-oriented trade unionism and left, while overseeing his father intended for school books. Wilhelmina, articulating a very refined French language, was favored to enter to the French Comedy. Andre
Miramont Dessessart evoked with favorite Castel Peyriac to dethrone the references to "pain" tongues. When his parents withdrew them in 1940, celebrated by their brother Alfonso, who shared their beliefs fascist, General Miramont Dessessart began serving the "Marshal Petain. Nevertheless, his son, Andrew, felt a great admiration for Uncle Fred Castel Peyriac whose courage had fought two wars. Halo and endearing charisma if unaltered despite a gruff character at first - as his son Pascal ... Giants Odysseys, their names Resistance warred in his brain: the network of Frederick (which covered almost the entire region Béarnaise): 'The Communards' itself is "John the Baptist and his wife, Wilhelmina" Berenice "... Pascal:" Don Quixote "Solange" Laetitia "... bits of" great deeds of arms "seized upon during their private conversations!
gradually unfolded the aisle of plane trees, leading to Castel Peyriac Andre he thought this poem by Francis Ponge ("Poem 42" review of the Resistance, May 1942)? "The plane or permanence (Louis Aragon)"
" Borderas You always our French Ave.
" For your simple frame and clear the trunk, which departed sharply from the flatness of the bark ...
" Quiet your duty you do not worry emu point: You can guide them but enough that emits a single worthwhile successor to the proud Languedoc
A perpetual shade of sycamore . "
Then, a series of rooms through which he ran with immunity ... laughter - especially laughter! Castel Peyriac presented itself ... in a joyous re-creation opposite to rigid paternal fold, thanks to playmates, cousins, children of Uncle Alphonse. The arrival of Anne-Flore, he saw for the first time, Christmas Eve 1941, in the arms of an uncle Frederick shaggy, almost in rags, his parents died tragically and his kindness towards his devoted disease this "kid" hitherto unknown!
In addition, the area provided a wide stream that rippled among the "grass" - or rather gâtines. Rich in trout, purveyor of fun-drola inexhaustible ticks for everything " The cousins permission to dabble Engen-drait the invention of entertainment around an unexplored "Barca" Expired! Thus, André instituted "lifeguard" for Anne-Flore and taught him to swim.
Suddenly, Andre Castel Peyriac put in parallel with its parental presence. On the one hand, "the hotel" Paris, unoriginal, but pompously arrogant (Faubourg Saint-Germain), where we received the "luminaries" justifying a protocol - Profile "ancien regime" - subscribers fanatics "Action French! On the other, in Essarts, nobly relegated Ile de France. Holidays were as Spartan as the Jesuits, where he performed his classics. Daily Mass (many clerics had long since earned the right to officiate in the chapel). The Liturgy of the meal, over-exercising what is relentless expertise: its language and its maintenance. However, Andre freed them sometimes. The "chapel" in fact, had a fine organ: Buffet, megaphone and resonator (seventeenth century); console with four keyboards with tie game, assisted by a mechanical transmission Barker machine; pipes with games-to-mouth and the reeds ... classical organ (cf. Albi Cathedral Sainte Cecile / Cintegabelle ...). Andre struggled to master this instrument - wonderful area of freedom!
Omnipresent, the tutelary father commanded his household like his cavalry at Saumur. General embodied it, provided, specifically a motto, "Forward, calm and straight? Indomitable brazen, even in his August physics, Marquis Miramont Dessessart, paraded in society in a posture superbly polished. A directory of course impeccable! Not without a few cracks which exempts itself in these arenas to gloss snobbery. His masterful fingering capturing the dumbfounded impaired listeners ... And in the midst of a monologue which subordinated the complacency once the swarm gathered around him ... sure his maneuver, he pivoted toward the Marquise to harp on with " sentence "that startled both Andre:
-" You may flatter you every day that God grants you, my dear child! You've found a party generously over your genealogy and makes you happy, anytime, is not it? "While a drone
censer was without doubt besiege spouses, have emerged from a mild entreaty, the Brasilia - clear? - Retained by the Marquis Miramont Dessessart, encouraged a thin posturing tactician, almost suffocated! In private, he vilified without truce, the slightest failure. Engineering patriarchal before whom Marie-Estelle was unlikely his fill - the staff bore all the aftershocks vexatious. Satrap whose prosaic private Andre made pastries daily. At Castel-
Peyriac uses were almost identical - with no change componction.Un filled him with unexpected happiness: the playfulness, despite the vicissitudes of war. The less formal atmosphere, except the severity of his uncle Alfonso ... The rooms allowed children to some fabulous disorders ... because we warned before the inspection! Because of interest
be more people than things?
With him, Andre scrutinized each decorative element both feeling a strange pride, mixed with ecstasy, and a sort of crime if he expected to receive a vestige of the laurels lost in the mists of time ... then break it!
[[The author would like to carry his reader, as in the novel "Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), when where you could visit the nice English-manor. He is reduced to relying on the imagination of the reader, without doubt, bewitched by the patrician residence: Essarts or Parisian hotel. The magnificence him appear disproportionate compared to the crude "bastide" - typically Gascon - Castel Peyriac "managed" the First Empire ...]]
The Miramont Dessessart proclaimed themselves the descendants of William III, Count of Ponthieu who married in 1195 Alix, whose brother was none other than Philip II "Augustus" (Winner of Bovines). A county, in the Carolingian period, amounted to a lord, servant to the defense of territorial walk. Ponthieu Marquenterre - this small seaside region, centered in the Picardie Maritime - thrashed by wars, (since the Hundred Years) and upheavals border. They elucidation, and the changing of name: during the exploit it during the Crusades, there were increases in marquisate in bringing the spoils of Louis IX (known as the "Holy") in Tunis. Immutable servants of God and King, "indispensable to the monarchs in exile, Louis XVIII and Charles X, they do not confront feared their fellow revolutionaries in the European coalition. Their property returned during the White Terror (after Waterloo, 1815), the more "allowances", brought them back the glitz. The
"Essarts" had, supposedly, always belonged to Miramont Dessessart. Their portraits in a procession immeasurable gallery - illustration of French history! Grimoires certify destruction of the fortifications of the Middle Ages, the French Revolution. Isolated, the pigeon bristled brand new! Two wings made up the building. One, Louis XIII, bri a few rough stones and coral paired. The other, which could closer to Fontainebleau - with a staircase U - probably pre-existing, but disastrous out because of an impertinent imitation "Grand Trianon" (pink marble columns).
Inside, grand processions of various apartments - especially the seventeenth century (seats with turned legs and chests chevron moldings). Ma-rie-Estelle cherished rather than the dominant Regency classicism. Woodwork, stucco, ceilings, few Boulle, Gobelins and Savonnerie cartels armorial decoration. Little paintings - mostly of a religious (some Vouet). Jewelry, Chinese boudoir Louis XVI. The milk jug from Sevres, (fold of Queen Marie-Antoinette?). Debauchery of rare items! Propensity for staging royal? ... Vase entwined lapis lazuli gold (Renaissance), rock crystal ewer, handle and gilt cap. All silverware already spread on long tables: the kettle (gilded silver, ovoid body on three winged sphinxes, cock-headed lioness Odiot) until shaker Himalayan (P. Nau) baluster form, through oil vinegar (silver and crystal) on its plate to a ram's head handles (Germain Thomas). As for pitchers: rustic decorations and garlands!
[[The author will override the "lackeys" in troops required for polishing! ]]
A phenomenal warrior statuary ...
The immeasurable library, curiously forlorn: no dust particle to report any traffic! Andrew, avid reader, lamented that large parts of the masterpieces there were proscribed by the "Index" of the Vatican (except "Mein Kampf" of Herr Hitler and "The Protocol of the Elders of Zion" caved, no known how Tsarist Russia ...) The
French Garden: Lawn embroidery, malls, fountains basin, Goulet, mirrors ... etc.. ...
[[The author spared here in his description finicky drive huge shield-ries, copious flushing and outbuildings detectable in any tourist guide - our country is amply provided with such buildings. Record, however, that this student "veteran" of Saumur horses lined up for thoroughbred racing during the swank upscale ...]]
Marie-Estelle had, in addition, (although maternal staff) a huge apartment in a building in the Faubourg Saint-Germain , haunted by the old nobility. Damage? in Paris, Miramont Dessessart carefully avoided the hotel cousins ...
At Castel Peyriac, is unveiled reverberation pigweed sleek "Etruscan" First Empire, hummocky, here and there, through the lush rounded Second Empire. Sumptuous interior, more watered by the recurrence of precursors adored by the window display accessories museum - the layout style it had to be scrambled. Draperies and other carpet does not display the Byzantine Gongorism, notwithstanding some works of art ... It distanced the munificent obsession: probably extraction "peasant" gifted and practical sense, guaranteed the good life.
We used the stud farm as a hobby. Gourmet, we had adopted the seal of productive farms surrounding garden, barn, orchards, dairy, etc.. Specifically, beekeeping. Without fear of "derogate" we implemented the survival winemaker: Jurançon. These wines combine the soft roundness due to fringance sugar and a touch of acidity that provide candy, nerve and structure, and amber light. Sweet wines of France. In the sixteenth century Jurançon obtained the seal King Henry II d'Albret, father of Henri IV. Thus deduced the famous legend in the birth of Henri IV, his father made him smell the drink before rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic, supposed to fortify. This story became a custom (Bearn baptism) and a symbol wine. At Castel-
Peyriac is toiling Jurançon dry: the dress is more or less golden, shaded green. Young, it develops floral aromas (broom, acacia) and fruit (passion fruit). Older toasted almonds, dried fruit. Round in the mouth with sap and length - sending their cementation.
Everywhere, latitude humming the song Barbara
"Hello the tree, my beautiful tree,
I return, my heart is glad,
Under your branches bend,
I found my dreams Child ... "For
Essarts, the altered marble splendor of seduction - Royal opacity! ; At Castel Peyriac, we do not fear the sunshine southern crest of a joyful life ...
Solange Castel Peyriac gazed happily this "reunion" hastily installed in the garden. The strikes of 1968 and the prize awarded to Andre managed the minor miracle: meet at Castel-Peyriac at the same table his twin brother Pascal, his half-sister Anne-Flore, Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart and Virgil Khalife. Lamented the absence of Andrew, also recommended ...
(In fact, it took Antonin call the butler to do that alert all-domesticity: Honorine, the cook and his assistants; Gilles, the head gardener Felix, driver and errand boy; Charlotte, responsible clean up the house sound, and Saturninus head of the table ...)
Béarn has a reputation of being "a country of mouth 'the pot fire bearnaise - called "double boiled chicken Henric musth" - deliciously stuffed (after cooking, with a string attached to the leg, we rescued the animal from the jar). The stew and pie chamois are excellent but difficult to capture these shy and agile little buff: it depended on the hunter - Pascal course! And this penny reigned, elated, his microsome around; attentive to join her sister for the service, as it seemed happy to see her younger sister ... The vast
pergola, its reeds and wild vine, very Asylum fees for summer lunches. It was reached through an alley covered under the green cradle which encircled a lesson Hellenic recited by Solange:
"The ears are Ceres,
For gods books forests, grass Chloris
In New ... At
Flora the beautiful flowers ... "Pierre de Ronsard
The poetic lushness of wisteria and lilac cramped guests add their fragrance to the bouquet of wine ... it only run in rustic earthenware and baccarat standards - which the very vexed Marquise ... Under the eye spoilsport Anne-Flore, Pascal, Virgil and Solange colloquèrent by acolytes, on "the events of May "- Without it!
A measure advanced by the end of lunch, everyone let go - except the Marchioness Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart: the mighty mannerism of his gestures, their modulations studied, calculating perimeter impalpable between the person and the common man .. . The voice of Virgil galvanized in the manner of completing the banquet address:
- "Ah! What an oasis! What feasts, my dear Solange I'd never do you have enough of such extravagance! ! I assure you, I, who both knocked, I've never been so well received! Also, sometimes you string affability Siberian, sometimes you're coated with a deluge sycophant, here we guess bliss: your qualities of heart! "Solange
put this exuberance on behalf of the exquisite and the Jurancon sec. The lyricism lighten it the most overwhelming weight of the sun Gascon? This
Turkish political exile in France, had only one physical aspect attributed to his countrymen: the mustache. The thick hair, very light brown, olive is starred enveloped the glance of intelligence. His tall figure seemed to grasp the athletic world. Child, he trotted into the corridors of Atatürk. Educated in the elite circle, he cared, flirtatious indefinable attraction: Orientalism. A voice identified by the slight accent, mezzo carefully articulated. Journalist and translator of poetry Ottoman, he worked at the publishing house (inherited from his father) that led Solange (supported by her companion Arthur Beley). They became intimate, she was grateful for having introduced Anne-Flore in the journalistic community in the form of "training". From
couple zigzagged affinity unstable: Anne-Flore, his strawberry blonde, golden-brown eyes shimmering emerald, rainbow of adorable little face freckles, join lovingly at her partner profile ... A few furtive gestures sending their cohesion and hopes "the union" ... (glances exchanged between her brother and sister).
Solange purple and always measured:
- "Come, Virgil, you forget our dinners Paris studious ..."
- "This charming resort stay improvised ... "
- Virgil comes to Castel Peyriac and our summer festival for the first time!".
intervened Pascal who was his host role, adding:
- "He's right ! Here's thinking spurting everywhere. The Parisian air becomes too superficial. It took me a while to realize it. I've been carefully tamed - the wounds to heal! The neighborhood family graves brought me a kind of appeasement. At any moment, the air we breathe shows the path. By I do not know what hypnosis, one morning I woke up transformed into a hick! ! .
And he concludes with his usual authority:
- "Besides, here you can flush out the Castel Peyriac Brindezingue a bit on the edges! "
Anne-Flore did not appreciate the tirade by serving coffee with a nervous haste:
- "once again and armorial immortalized chore! "She grumbled.
- "Virgil suggests, my dear! It is courteous to him! So I can not resist the pleasure of conquering invoke the star of our ancestors, who, without knowing the fate of our mythical neighbor Bernadotte, born in Pau in a clutch maker died in Stockholm, King of Sweden ... "
Anne-Flore curtly cut her speech:
-" Fun foresight: the disavowal of the Napoleonic tyranny! .
- "Everyone looks at his door! "
- "Historians broaden the horizon for him bake another figure to your Napoleon! "
-" Why deprive myself I, however, tell the fantastic courses: those to whom we owe everything - you alike? "
-" Your brother is not entirely wrong ... According to his family legend, a young shepherd from the Bernadotte would have derived from his enchantment of the Fairy Lake d'Estaing, and would have married her ... "
-" Decidedly, Solange, you take the bottle ... "
-" And your bias towards these drugs Soldiers of Year II? Left, ragged to consolidate the gains of the Revolution, against the royalist coalition, this masterful ride deserved their European-based manufacturer offline community leaders who founded the Republic! "Marie-Estelle
Miramont Dessessart, until quite quiet, the top of the table she presided, took off his words with ranting:
-" The true aristocracy, was blessed by St. Louis, without haggling his title by paying the blood of Louis XVI! "
Virgil could not repress a smile on your false ignorant blurted
-" Oh yes! The Crusades? "
-" Exactly! "Retorted
Pascal, and, hesitating not to mix the dates:
"when you, the Ottomans, we learn math! "
-" The Miramont Dessessart pride themselves persecution for their faith! "
-" What we import these bloody fools Nazis! "
-" You t'ingénies still disrespect me ... "Solange
sketched a failed mediation. Moderate uncompromising Marquise?
- "Since we are on this chapter, I want to say here that the oversight of Anne-Flore in the award of" Model "is truly unacceptable ... . The latter jumped
:
- " You pretend, aunt, to ignore the telegram in which I elucidate all circumstances beyond our control. "
And Virgil adds:
-" Allow me, madame, to express my reverence for Father Miramont Dessessart "...
Marie-Estelle, inexorable watched Anne-Flore:
- "The most eminent personalities are displaced except you? "Solange
sketched, yet, arbitration:
-" I'm sure that Andre absolves them! "...
- "We must always keep his lamp ready and some are odd unpardonable ! "Only
Pascal, could complete the trial:
-" Basta! your number executed, FOUT us peace now! I bite my fingers already on the pilgrimage to Stockholm - even for Andre! .
Marie-Estelle, designing the Areopagus certainly would not be benevolent, locked himself in a supreme dumbness.
Solange took the opportunity to ask guests who settled in the lounge. Smoothly paneled and upholstered fabrics dainty; caulked by its scalloped valance silky sheer ... provided. "Haven of Peace"? Everyone stood in the seats from which flows the pleasant tranquility
... So do we solicited Virgil on instances of disappointment. Despite the embarrassment transparent, acquiescence, disillusioned
- "It was beautiful ... a censure absurd misunderstanding: our plane removed at the last moment due to strikes ... we were stupidly helpless! . Anne-Flore
continued:
- "In contrast, a scoop filled us greatly! "
And the way to go to a lay audience, explained:
-" A scoop is a fact unknown to the majority. "
But she left the credit her lover.
- "Imagine that the pianist Dimitri Dikkoff returned just on tour in his home country, Romania - for the first time since his banish-ment. Unfortunately, I know this kind of case. Despite equivocal performance against Westerners shenanigans by the secretary of the Communist Party, Ceausescu. And our visas were extended. Faced with unanimous
attention, he had continued:
- "Paradox, there were lots of interesting stuff to collect. I think the contacts for the political party and diplomatic talents of Anne-Flore worked wonders in the music. That's original : Romantic attend concerts while flying cobblestones in Paris. "Marie-Estelle
Miramont Dessessart hinted there:
-" Apart from her divorce, Anne-Flore would become a famous virtuoso and ... "Pascal
rose, threatening:
-" Your bitterness we ulcer and you continue to strangle us! . They continued their confrontation
almost one-to-head
- "spill-you so much profanity in the presence of Andre? "
-" In the presence of Andre will not you open that mouth full of venom! At this rate, you're not, well, we sabotage our party! "
After a pause, Pascal Castel Peyriac added, refining the" hold "beneficial:
-" Besides, on the age of your cursed lineage, we could produce the documents administrative unseat your fucking Believe SES! "
-" What's that novel? "Anne-Flore
Brocard, whose astonishment was not feigned.
- "Oh! It's an adventure! .
S'entremit Solange to support the allegations of his brother
- "Our friend, Theophilus Figner has flushed out, to be nowhere, unheard records. We will keep you .... "
- "Let's face as they read:" Theo "in his genealogical research - with the patience of an angel! - Found "our" hypothetical ancestor of Hugh FLORAC Estoile who was born in 1192! "Hypothetical", if appropriate, be cautious! ... Because surveys are often indeterminate nobility. It is true that all elements in all the wrong damn paperwork and convoluted these kin. In addition, the line to have no gap! "
Solange did not spare his lyricism:
-" It's exciting: the Hitchcock film! Rave like a novel! The amendment "Peyriac" would have done during the Wars of Religion. "
-" Of course! Master Theophilus Figner, a Huguenot! ", Stressed disdainful-ment, Marie-Estelle Miramont Dessessart.
- "What enthusiasm attractive if we checked cousins! "Cried Anne-Flore.
- "We're not far away - but the excavations Paleographs" just beginning ". Pascal sets.
- "Rather an ambush! "Alleged, the haughty Marquise.
- As a truce, Pascal turned on his heel, scornfully ignoring her aunt and Virgil monopolized for a walk. Solange had taken Anne-Flore to the cool interior. Marie-Estelle, rejected, returned to his lair ...
Manor, structured according to societal rules of the big bourgeoisie, early 19th century, and local meteorology, all parts of the ground floor, looked out over the gardens. A graceful statue of the ancient embraced by the honeysuckle merrily added fuel hardwood stairs, outside, despite its simplicity. Inside an imposing reception gallery, various dining rooms, lounges, lobbies, office or library whose styles make friends valiantly. Solange
Castel Peyriac invited his sister to have "his" porch, (a spiral staircase ascended directly into "his" apartment), who displayed a profusion of green plants and other "geraniums" - labels assigned by Anne-Flore willingly acknowledging its shortcomings and its lack of concern for plants. Others appreciate, perhaps, beds, although cramped, but with beautiful tulips at the foot of which match, in gradations, the forget-me, that prized berries through the summer ... this piece was a shelter against the heat by opening up the arbor leading to the pergola, decorated with, among others, with climbing roses. Solange
settled himself in "his" armchair Louis XV and his Duchess taboo-ret. The cover silk "old rose" clashed with his clothes "relax" a grayish lantern. Indeed, she was inclined rather to the "neglected" so-called good taste. As for the ease in his old clothes, her younger sister will probably smelled age - not without panic! And all these explosive fagotages with a table first empire: amounts gilt bronze and three storey glass overwhelmed by books or papers in disorder. Anne-Flore
Castel Peyriac, slumped in an "Ottoman" Louis XV, fidgety, exploded soon:
- "Aunt became odious! Age and Price" Model "meeting, it sinks, voluptuously buffoonery in the most decadent! "
This anger does not surprise Solange. When her companion Arthur Beley, its intimate and Muriel Clairence Theophilus Figner stayed at Castel Peyriac, surrounded by their clever affability, their aunt blunted his sermons: Pact not -aggression Despite their differing opinions - oh!
Besides, the steward Anthony Terrighi, so devoted, had not shown good reason - even protected by his master Pascal
... At the heart of its nostalgia, Solange spoke of his first approach with Anne-Flore. Itself barely a teenager, ripe for savage love ... small plug whose sparkling eyes staring at her, oddly. And, above all, come-hither smile, twinkle in the supernatural that you bewitched-ja ... but somewhat removed from, in spite of its velvety superabundant kindness ... A "little sister", "core" ...
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