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100 1 _aFrondaie, Pierre,
_d1884-1948
245 1 2 _aL'homme à l'Hispano
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-03
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _a"L'homme à l'Hispano" by Pierre Frondaie is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set on the Basque coast, it follows war-scarred romantic Georges Dewalter, whose borrowed Hispano-Suiza draws Stéphane Coulevaï into a sudden, intoxicating attachment while her cold, predatory husband, Sir William Meredith Oswill, circles with a skeptic’s eye. The book blends speed, wealth, and mistaken appearances with a sharp duel between belief in love and its cynical denial. It promises an elegant, high-stakes romance under social glare and private risk. The opening of the novel presents the gleaming Hispano as a lure and stage: Dewalter arrives from Bordeaux with Deléone, then reappears in a quiet pâtisserie where he and Stéphane wordlessly kindle a powerful attraction. Miss Redge, the shopkeeper, watches, while the text sketches Stéphane’s grand Coulevaï lineage and her inner thirst for real feeling. We meet Oswill, a rich, tattooed English baronet who prides himself on cruel “experiments” and a scorn for love. He recognizes Dewalter from a recent train ride, where the younger man confessed he was penniless and bound for Senegal; now, by a quirk of fortune, Dewalter is misread as a magnate because he’s driving Deléone’s Hispano. Dewalter admits the ruse’s accident and his sudden love, while Oswill needles him and vows disbelief in passion. Stéphane promises Dewalter a day alone together; that night she refuses Oswill’s abrupt plan to drag her to Morocco, and he guesses there is another man. At the glittering Réserve in Ciboure, amid society’s noise and moonlit hush, Stéphane and Dewalter sit apart, their bond deepening as the scene fades on a charged, tender moment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Éditions Émile-Paul frères, 1925
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k80739k
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78101
999 _c118821
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