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    Monsieur Beaucaire
    Monsieur Beaucaire
    Monsieur Beaucaire
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    Monsieur Beaucaire

    By Booth Tarkington

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    According to Wikipedia: "Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869, Indianapolis – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams…. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician family that came down in the world after the Panic of 1873. Today he is best known for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles filmed in 1942. It is included in the Modern Library's list of top-100 novels."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455333325
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    Booth Tarkington

    Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and playwright. Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for the novel The Magnificent Ambersons and again in 1922 for Alice Adams. He is one of only three authors to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Though Tarkington was educated at Princeton University, his works are strongly grounded in his native Indiana. 

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    • 3/5
      A fairly tepid story that was a bit predictable.....my least favorite aspect of this was the written French accent of the main character and the constant references to characters social standing which was can also be confusing if you are not familiar with that social structure.....quite different from the one Tarkington novel i have read set in the midwest US....will be anxious to read all the others on the shelf!
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      107. Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington (read fall of 1942) I claim to have at least a semblance of a review posted for every book I have read. I just noticed there was not a review posted for this book, which I read as a freshman in high school. That is 70 years ago and before I systematically kept notes on books I have read. However, I do recall I was not enthused by this book. Its prime quality was that it was not a big book and took l little time to read.

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    Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington

    MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE BY BOOTH TARKINGTON

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    Published by Seltzer Books. seltzerbooks.com

    established in 1974, as B&R Samizdat Express

    offering over 14,000 books

    feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

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    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter One

    The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do.   His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good.   As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole softly into the shadows of the chamber, he leaned across the table and smilingly plucked a card out of the big Englishman's sleeve.

    Merci, M. le Duc! he laughed, rising and stepping back from the table.

    The Englishman cried out, It means the dirty work of silencing you with my bare hands! and came at him.

    Do not move, said M. Beaucaire, so sharply that the other paused. Observe behind you.

    The Englishman turned, and saw what trap he had blundered into; then stood transfixed, impotent, alternately scarlet with rage and white with the vital shame of discovery.  M. Beaucaire remarked, indicating the silent figures by a polite wave of the hand, Is it not a compliment to monsieur that I procure six large men to subdue him?  They are quite devote' to me, and monsieur is alone.  Could it be that he did not wish even his lackeys to know he play with the yo'ng Frenchman who Meestaire Nash does not like in the pomp-room? Monsieur is unfortunate to have come on foot and alone to my apartment.

    The Duke's mouth foamed over with chaotic revilement.  His captor smiled brightly, and made a slight gesture, as one who brushes aside a boisterous insect.  With the same motion he quelled to stony quiet a resentful impetus of his servants toward the Englishman.

    It's murder, is it, you carrion! finished the Duke.

    M. Beaucaire lifted his shoulders in a mock shiver.  What words! No, no, no!  No killing!  A such word to a such host!  No, no, not mur-r-der; only disgrace!  He laughed a clear, light laugh with a rising inflection, seeming to launch himself upon an adventurous quest for sympathy.

    You little devilish scullion! spat out the Duke.

    "Tut, tut!  But I forget.  Monsieur has pursue' his studies of deportment amongs' his fellow-countrymen.

    Do you dream a soul in Bath will take your word that I - that I -

    That M. le Duc de Winterset had a card up his sleeve?

    You pitiful stroller, you stableboy, born in a stable -

    Is it not an honor to be born where monsieur must have been bred?

    You scurvy foot-boy, you greasy barber, you cutthroat groom -

    Overwhelm'! The young man bowed with imperturbable elation.  M. le Duc appoint' me to all the office' of his househol'.

    You mustachioed fool, there are not five people of quality in Bath will speak to you -

    No, monsieur, not on the parade; but how many come to play with me here?  Because I will play always, night or day, for what one will, for any long, and al - ways fair, monsieur.

    You outrageous varlet!  Every one knows you came to England as the French Ambassador's barber.  What man of fashion will listen to you? Who will believe you?

    All people, monsieur.  Do you think I have not calculate', that I shall make a failure of my little enterprise?

    Bah!

    Will monsieur not reseat himself?  M. Beaucaire made a low bow. "So.  We must not be too tire' for Lady Malbourne's rout.  Ha, ha! And you, Jean, Victor, and you others, retire; go in the hallway. Attend at the entrance, Francois.  So; now we shall talk.  Monsieur, I wish you to think very cool.  Then listen; I will be briefly.  It is that I am well known to be all, entire' hones'.  Gamblist?  Ah, yes; true and mos

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