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When “something heavy” falls on Eddy Bellegueule’s father at the factory where he works, leaving his back “broyé, é��������é” — “mangled, crushed” — it may seem a kind of justice.

The French-Canadian newspaper headlines were just as mournful: “Une Leçon,” and “Le Canada Écrasé.”

Crazy, we have borrowed from the French ecrasé, crushed, broken: we still use the same meaning, and say that such a person is crack’d.

Also in limp lambskin, 3s. 6d. net; Velvet calf, 5s. net; Ecrasé persian. 5s. net.

Limp lambskin, 3s. 6d. net; Velvet calf, 5s. net; Ecrasé persian, 5s. net.