Maurice Toesca

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

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The young Frenchman Jean Monnier, despite his age, holds a position at the New York office of the Holmann Bank. Everything would therefore be going for the best in the best of all possible worlds, if he did not learn, in quick succession on the very same day, first that he is ruined, and second that his wife Fanny has just left him. Enough to make one wish to put an end to it all and leave this vale of tears as quickly as possible.