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"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
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