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The Jews
by Roger Peyrefitte

Publisher: Panther
London, UK

Year


1973       first publ. France 1965
Cover / size: paperback / h 17.6 cm * w 11.2 cm / 492 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN:

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Arbery Ref:   000192


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Condition: Good

Cover scuffed. Ink and pencil inscriptions on pre-title page. Pages foxed, but binding very tight.



Plot / Content:

There is no explicitly gay content in this novel, although Sarre is gay in other novels where he appears - including Special Friendships - see below .

"Bigoted Françoise is doing all she can to stop her daughter, the lovely Osmonde, from marrying enormously wealthy Saul de Goldschild. Why? Simply because Saul is Jewish. But Françoise's bosom friend Georges Sarre is researching into Judaism and his surprising discoveries reveal that if Osmonde can't wed seomone with Jewish blood, there may very well be no one in the entire Western world whom she can marry . . . "

(from the cover)



Background / Biography:

"Roger Peyrefitte, France's most controversial modern satirist, has again written a book of rich intelligence, outrageous humour and sophisticated bawdiness. On its first publication in France, The Jews created a scandal that rocked French high society to its well-heeled foundations, provoking law suits galore complete with charge and counter-charge levelled against some of the most prominent figures in Continental public life." (from the cover)

Peyrefitte (1907 - 2000) came to fame with his first novel - Les Amitiés Particulières (Special Friendships) (1947) describing the love affair between two teenage boys. A flamboyant figure, several of his dozens of books were about teenage boys and their older male sexual partners and lovers. Wikipedia entry



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Quote from this book
"On January 1st, 1963, the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord, it is far from certain that General de Gaulle was thinking of his ancestors, the Kolb Jews, Chancellor Adenauer of his ancestors the Adenauer Jews, the President of the Italian Republic of his ancestros the Segni Jews, the King of Sweden of his ancestor the half-Jew Bernadotte, the ex-King of Italy of his maternal ancestors the Petrovitch Niégoch Jews of Montenegro, the Archduke Otto von Hapsburg of his ancestor the Jewess Henriquez (mother of Ferdinand the Catholic), the King of Belgium of his ancestor the Jewess Pereira from whom his great-grandmother Braganza descends, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands of his ancestor the Jewess Pacheco, Queen Elizabeth of her maternal ancestors the Bowes-Lyon Jews, the Duke of Edinburgh of his ancestors the Haucke Jews; or that at the White House President Kennedy was thinking of his ancestors the Kennedy Jews or Vice-President Johnson of his ancestors the Johnson Jews. "

opening paragraph





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