This is Life
“His butler was under strict instruction to leave him in peace until precisely noon, at which point he was to bring him his silver breakfast salver and, beside it, an ironed copy of the paper.
When the butler had made his delivery to the four-poster bed, accepted his customary scolding and left the oak-panelled room, the arts editor of L’Univers chewed on a chunk of croissant, and picked out his supplement. He could see at once that something was not quite right. But what was it? He moved th...e paper around, looking at it from a number of angles, and at last he found the offending detail. It was the headline. For some reason it now read: The End of Life? Where had the question mark come from? First thing on Monday morning he would track that sub-editor down and have their guts for garters.
He was eager to find out how Jean-Didier Delacroix had skewered his subject. He knew he could trust him to have done it with a delicious deftness, and no little humour.MoreLess
When the butler had made his delivery to the four-poster bed, accepted his customary scolding and left the oak-panelled room, the arts editor of L’Univers chewed on a chunk of croissant, and picked out his supplement. He could see at once that something was not quite right. But what was it? He moved th...e paper around, looking at it from a number of angles, and at last he found the offending detail. It was the headline. For some reason it now read: The End of Life? Where had the question mark come from? First thing on Monday morning he would track that sub-editor down and have their guts for garters.
He was eager to find out how Jean-Didier Delacroix had skewered his subject. He knew he could trust him to have done it with a delicious deftness, and no little humour.MoreLess
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