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Readable, memorable, amusing & French.

The scandals of Clochemerle,
Gabriel Chevallier
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006ANOAM

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Readable, memorable, amusing & French. .......2005-06-14

The Scandals of Clochemerle, I would say, is a hilarious caricature of life in the hypocritical catholic French countryside. I wonder why it is not reprinted. I read it when I was young and recall it as one of the funniest books I ever read. Get it.
Believe it or not, I looked it up apropos a dialogue with a friend about the presumably superior intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews (we both are) as indicated by a report in the June 4, 2005 Economist. My friend (a geneticist) pointed out that over the centuries while Ashkenazi Jews selected high IQ Talmud-scholar boys and married them to rich girls to produce 8 or 10 offspring, the catholics encouraged their best offspring to be priests, monks and nuns. How true... Was the selection efficient? We really don't know...

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Witty and entertaining observation of human nature
This book is a long lost friend!

Clochemerle
Gabriel Chevallier
Manufacturer: Livre de Poche
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 2253005630

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Witty and entertaining observation of human nature.......2006-09-04

I have to bow to Suresh Bhave and his succinct critique of the book, below. Long time or not since he read it, no one could capture the book's spirit better. But I want to add one additional observation. As an American who lives in Japan, I was impressed, no...blown away, by the keenness and validity of the Gallic author's impression of both the Japanese and the Americans of the 1930's. The most interesting aspect of it is how accurate his impressions remain today.

A rollicking good time, Clochemerle. It isn't perfect, just as Mr. Bhave says, but it's a dang good read and an incisive, witty observation of human nature.

This book is a long lost friend!.......2004-07-11

It has been a long time since I read the book at the age of 16. I loved the little village of Beaujaulaise (?) and its residents. The man who hatched eggs and the padres who confessed their sins with their housekeepers by telegraph, the aristocrat, the communist, the merchant and his lovely wife whose pink mouth enchanted many a cuatomer. I do not remember much about it any more, but I remember the mediator who succeeded because of bad breath and the urinal that was built near the girls' school and the church. It had the authentic flavour of France, a country I have never seen. One may question why I have not rated it a five stars book, but the reason is that though a book I remember and would like to buy again (my two copies were borrowed and never returned, it does not make grade as great literature, its like a lovable woman, but not the perfect woman.

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Clochemerle-les-Bains
Gabriel - Proof copy (Translated by Xan Fielding) Chevallier
Manufacturer: Secker and Warburg
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CMBMN

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Clochemerle
G. Chevallier
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HNTG8W

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Clochemerle.
Gabriel Chevallier
Manufacturer: Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3596140293

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Clochemerle-Babylon
Gabriel Chevallier
Manufacturer: Penguin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000E7GSMS

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CLOCHEMERLE-BABYLON.

Manufacturer: Penguin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CK0BO

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The Scandals of Clochemerle
Gabriel Chevellier
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KWMFS8

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Clochemerle
Gabriel Chevallier
Manufacturer: Penguin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K5QQ3U

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Clochemerle-les-Bains
Gabriel Chevallier
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006BMUQU

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