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...ROBERT HENREY London, England...
...Little Madeleine, by Mrs. Robert Henrey. Recollections of a girlhood in Paris during the early part of the century; a fine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism (TIME...
...LITTLE MADELEINE (350 pp.) - Mrs. Robert Henrey - Dutton...
French-born Madeleine Henrey, a highly intelligent woman, must have realized the risk she was running in writing the story of her childhood. All she had to work with were the short and simple annals of the poor. Yet The Little Madeleine is a triumph over the facts of life, a moving story of considerable charm and readability that is all the more remarkable be cause it is not about anything or anybody of seeming importance. What raises this artfully simple book above the commonplace is Author Henrey's deep respect for life itself, anybody's life...
...relatives. Another time she and her mother went to live in a provincial town, inadvertently moved into a brothel. Her luck changed for good when, with mamma, she left Paris for London, became a hairdresser at the Savoy Hotel while mother did dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed...