![]() ![]() ![]() House that two hundred years ago had belonged to one of her ancestorsĪnd she explored the derelict buildings and saw fragments of the glass In the course of her researches, du Maurier also discovered a ![]() Perhaps even becoming one of them', her biographer Judith Cook writes Suddenly transported into their midst, listening to their conversation, The people were and what their secrets might be. Window onto a family scene, she began to wonder, as was her habit, who Who looked identical to someone she knew and then, glancing through a While out walking in a square in a French town, du Maurier saw a man Undertake later formed the basis of her 1963 novel The Glass-Blowers but du Maurier was sidetracked by a number of incidents that were to inspire the plot of The Scapegoat. The Busson-Mathurins, who were glass-blowers. When du Maurier was in France researching the lives of her ancestors, The seeds for the novel were sown in 1955 His double's scapegoat in a complex web of family intrigue and Has disappeared, leaving him to play the role of the Comte and become Night of drinking with his double, John wakes up to discover that Jean Meets his doppelganger, the French count, Jean de Gué and after a His life as a university lecturer, is travelling in France when he The narrator, an Englishman named John, depressed and dissatisfied with Maurier novels with a male narrator, was published in 1957 by GollanczĪnd was made into a film in 1959 starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis. ![]()
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