Priscilla
“He touched the inside of her arm and she felt the current jitter through her. I do not know how she met Emile Cornet, and there is no one left to ask. But he unsettled Priscilla from the start, and though their rapport was for the most part physical, it marked her life. Her relationship with Robert had been all about surface; with Cornet, everything flared from within, from what remained hidden.
‘He was rather an ugly little man with a sort of twisted face, but he was full of vitality and perso...nality and he swept me off my feet.’ His full name was Emile-Hubert Cornet du Fonteny. He was born in 1905 near Charleroi, the son of a minor Belgian aristocrat whose title he used when it suited him. Known on the Grand Prix circuit as ‘le baron Belge’, Cornet took over management of the family enamelworks, selling them in 1937 to concentrate on motor racing. He was planning to compete in the São Paulo Grand Prix when German tanks smashed over the Belgian border.
He was reckless, with a short man’s large appetites.MoreLess
‘He was rather an ugly little man with a sort of twisted face, but he was full of vitality and perso...nality and he swept me off my feet.’ His full name was Emile-Hubert Cornet du Fonteny. He was born in 1905 near Charleroi, the son of a minor Belgian aristocrat whose title he used when it suited him. Known on the Grand Prix circuit as ‘le baron Belge’, Cornet took over management of the family enamelworks, selling them in 1937 to concentrate on motor racing. He was planning to compete in the São Paulo Grand Prix when German tanks smashed over the Belgian border.
He was reckless, with a short man’s large appetites.MoreLess
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