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The Colonel's Children (1926) - Frenuyum - 12-05-2025
Seven, it is said, is the age of reason, but that does not prevent the one who reaches it from retaining from previous years the habit of the marvellous in frequenting fairies. Antoine Charnelet therefore accepted without fear that an unknown hand would drag him through the crowd away from his governess to take him to Colonel Philémon Bigua.
He will remain there without regret. Who could resist the magic of the stories told to them by the colonel of their distant native country - South America, the evocation of the pampas, the estancia atmosphere that he recreates in the house?
It was the colonel himself who stole him, as he stole other unfortunate children: Joseph and the twins.This family, acquired in such a criminal way., lacks a daughter; Marcelle joins legally, through her father's will.
Just when the colonel seems to be happy at last, everything cracks, because with Marcelle love has entered the apartment. Joseph laughs all the more at the locks because he takes care to steal the keys.
The adventure then becomes more bitter than the ocean on which Bigua and his family embark - bitter as the childhood memories that inspired the poet to write this nostalgic and tender tale in which the hair of good people whitens and the mirages of the imagination shine.