In a small village in northern France, Monsieur Ouine, a retired professor, is taken in by the dull local squire, Anthelme de N r is, and soon rules the life of both Anthelme and his wife, Ginette. A fourteen-year-old fatherless boy, Philippe Dorval, flees home and, on impulse, follows Madame de N r is to her ch teau. There the squire, who is dying, tells the boy that his father is actually alive and well--that despite what Philippe's mother had told...
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