Sun, Oct 26, 2003
Jacques Thibault stifles in his bourgeois family where his father rules supreme over the household.He runs away with his friend Daniel but their plans come to a sudden end.The unfortunate son is sent to a reform school where he is left to his own devices by unscrupulous wardens .His brother,Antoine, goes out of his way to get him out of this gloomy place where he is humiliated.He comes up against a stone wall because his father is not prepared to accept it.
Mon, Oct 27, 2003
Jacques has just come out well in the Ecole Normale Supérieure exam;it promises to be a wonderful Summer .He experiments love with Jenny De Fontanin,his best friend's sister ,and also with Gise ,his adoptive sister .His brother Antoine is passionately in love with Rachel ,an attractive woman with a firm independence of men.The Thibault's dwelling,in Maisons-Laffite ,is not far from the Fontanin's house ,which allows Jacques and Antoine to visit their friends ,unbeknown to their father ,who forbade them to see those protestants.
Sun, Nov 2, 2003
Jacques has fled to Switzerland .Antoine takes him back home for their father is terminally -ill.Both try to comfort him in his last hour ,in a slow death .After his father's demise ,Antoine takes advantage of his heritage to have a modern physician's office whilst his brother joins his revolutionary friends in Genève .But everything happens at once:after the Sarajevo tragedy ,the threat of war looms ahead.In Paris, Jean Jaurès fights for peace.
Mon, Nov 3, 2003
Back in Paris ,Jacques tries to warn his compatriots against the impending war ;he is joined in his fight by his former love ,Jenny .In direct contrast with his attitude ,his brother Antoine, although afraid of war ,is ready to carry out his duty .Pacifist Jean Jaurès is murdered ,and shortly ,France declares war on Germany ,with the socialist party's approval.Disgusted ,Jacques refuses the draft and with one of his friends,an aviator ,plans an impossible task :to stop the war .Antoine leaves his desirable mansion and joins the army as a M.O.