Volume 42, Number 17 · November 2, 1995
In Love With Hitler
By Gordon A. Craig
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
by Gitta Sereny
Alfred Knopf, 757 pp., $35.00
In Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, the valet Scapin, in order to help Léandre obtain the money that will enable him to get married, tells the young man's father, Géronte, that his son has gone aboard a Turkish galley and that the Turks are now threatening to carry him off to Algiers unless Scapin brings them five hundred écus. Concerned for Léandre's safety, Géronte is gradually persuaded to hand over the money, but he does so reluctantly, crying again and again, 'Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?' ('What the devil was he doing in that galley?')[1]
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