the strange gentleman Lucia

A small announcement "French Chasseur" will allow Eudoxie, forty seven year old widow, meet Armand Bouvier, fifty-six, also widower, living in Meudon, at the time a charming country town (we 1935). Armand has a great son, Lucien, who will soon have an important place in the life of Eudoxia, first by his absence (he stays in his room and did not speak to him) then by its insistent presence since his father will die one day in 1940, making Lucien the happy (?) owner of this large suburban house. The relationships will develop between this son-odd engineering and handyman (we would call autistic but the word is never mentioned today) and his stepmother constitute matter of this story in two voices . Lucien, that everyone sees as belated or, at best, bilious, and yet has a very clear vision of reality, feels a strong attachment to his stepmother, which will over time be reciprocal and allow these two be torn life (it would be better to say by death) to find a semblance of happiness. True happiness, it is especially in writing Pujade-Claude Renaud. Fluid, sophisticated, she knows how to keep us in suspense until the final denouement unexpected. An unusual story, but so endearing