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Nevertheless, the evening he found himself seated between Lucie Belhomme and Claudie de Belzunce in front of a bottle of too-sweet champagne, Henri suddenly thought in astonishment, 'What am I doing here?' He liked neither the champagne, nor the crystal chandeliers, the mirrors, the velvet covering…

Henri shrugged his shoulders. 'Brieux will film the play I wrote or nothing at all.'

'You aren't going to spit on two million just because they want you to bring a dead man back to life!'

'He pretends to scorn money,' Claudie said, 'But what with the price of butter nowadays, it certainly com…

'Is the letter the only thing you've got against me?' he asked. 'Or did your Communist pals convince you that I'm a social traitor?'

'I don't have any Communist pals,' Nadine replied. She looked at Henri icily. 'Social traitor or not, you're no longer what you once were.'

'That's completely i…

'I can't understand this prejudice against America,' Bennet said in a melancholy voice. 'You've got to be a Communist to see in her only the citadel of capitalism. For it's also a country of workers, the country of progress, of prosperity, of the future.'

'It's the country that everywhere and al…

Definitely, people don't enjoy asking themselves questions. One way or another, they all manage to defend their systems. The Communist journals went as far as to sing the praises of an institution they baptized 'Rehabilitation and Corrective Labour Camps'. And all the anti-Stalinists saw in that af…