This, the latest to arrive in my Cendrars binge, good, his writing is excellent, only perhaps I've read a bit too much of him lately.
Opening with an 80 year old French Dowager getting railed by a member of the French Foreign Legion, so hard that she coughs her teeth onto the floor, and from there...
Well, a little time capsule of Paris at a certain age, enjoyable, better written that Maughm or Hemmingway, and certainly a lot more descriptive. Now I've "The Confessions of Dan Yack" to get through, but I'll think I'll head back to Antarctica for a bit and see how the ponies are doing...