Ayme

No-one ever takes up my recommendation to read Marcel Ayme, which is sad, because he is a gloriously quirky fantasist.

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(Seen here, the Ayme family of Tingo, who spend $31.55 on food in a week.)

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Monsieur Ayme and his Prussian pupil one day began discussing the delicate question of the war of 1870.

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As to Prince William's character as a schoolboy, Monsieur Ayme writes:

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_Par paranthèse_ may be introduced here a reference to Prince Henry, of whom Monsieur Ayme writes less enthusiastically.

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

Par paranthese may be introduced here a reference to Prince Henry, of whom Monsieur Ayme writes less enthusiastically.

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As to Prince William's character as a schoolboy, Monsieur Ayme writes:

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Monsieur Ayme and his Prussian pupil one day began discussing the delicate question of the war of 1870.

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

Ayme, a French engineer in the service of the Pacha of Egypt, found several of these old wells, a few years ago, in the oases.

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-- Death of the girl Ayme and of Mesdames Niel et Crouzet.

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