Le Rendez-vous de Senlis

is the idealist to live with the insincerity, falsehood and collaboration on which society is based? The dilemma is repeated through recurring types and may be resolved by defeat (La Sauvage, 1938) or with the offer of a second chance (Le Rendez-vous de Senlis, 1942). But for the most part his plays affirm that purity is impossible in a world without justice. Characters from different classes and historical times look to their own narrow interests; the family generates divisions; military and political