French Leave (novel)

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French Leave is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on January 20 1956 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on September 28 1959 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.

It does not feature any of Wodehouse's regular characters or settings, but tells a typically Wodehousian tale of troubled lovers, impoverished aristocrats, millionaires, servants and policemen, mostly set in the fictitious French resort of Roville.

[edit] Trivia

The titles of some of the French characters in the novel, the Marquis de Maufringneuse et Valerie-Moberanne, the Comte d'Escrignon and Prince Blamont-Chevry, are similar to those of some recurring characters in Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine: the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, the Marquis d'Esgrignon and the Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry. A Comtesse de Valérie-Moberanne made a fleeting appearance in The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont, by Robert Barr.

[edit] External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters