procedures, 143; identified with Maigret, 145-6, 148-9; literary novels, 147, 148, 158, 173-5; sells Ostrogoth and occupies La Richardiere,
149-50; relations with Tigy,
150; animals, 150; cooking,
150; taste for luxury, 151,
165-6, 282; African trip and articles, 151-4; exercises, 153; trip across Europe, 154-6; interviews Trotsky, 155-7; and political underworld, 157; Gallimard contract, 158-9,
173; need for constant sex,
160- 3, 260; female characters,
161- 2; 1935 world tour,
163—4; in love with English girl, 164; joins pacifist ‘Sans Haine’ movement, 167; moves to Nieul-sur-Mer,
167-9; recalled to colours (1938), 169; servant fines, 169-70; and mother’s remarriage, 170-1; uses personal background in novels, 171-80, 238, 287-9; in libel cases, 175; novelistic themes, 177-9; and birth and baptism of son Marc, 183-4; and outbreak of World War II, 184-6; as Commissioner for Belgian refugees, 186-8; wartime homes and rural life, ■ 188-91, 195, 200-1; and Marc’s childhood, 191-2, 210, 217; heart condition and threat of death, 192-3; genealogy, 194-5; 311-14; accused of Jewishness, 200-1; books filmed during war,
206-8; on jury of Prix de la Nouvelle France, 208-9; Tigy discovers infidelity, 210; hides from Resistance, 213-14; pleurisy, 214; hypochondria, 214-15; letter to Gide, 216-17; not denounced as wartime collaborator, 218n; leaves France for America (1945), 219-26, 229; moves to Nielsen as publisher, 222-3; in London, 224-5; meets and falls for Denyse, 229-33; in Canada, 230; relations with Denyse, 233-5, 240-1; violence with Denyse, 235, 293-4; adopts name Jo, 236; breakdown of marriage with Tigy and divorce, 237, 246-8, 250-1; acquires permanent US visa, 238-9; sexual morality, 239; and Boule in USA, 241; US films, 249-50; marriage to Denyse, 250-1; at Shadow