grantor-of-certificates-of-death

Updated: May 22, 2025

This was what Monsieur the Director, or rather, to give him the nickname which he had himself invented, Monsieur the Grantor-of-Certificates-of-death Pondevez, was asking himself one morning as he sat opposite Mme. Polge's venerable ringlets, taking a hand in this lady's favourite game. "Yes, my good Mme. Polge, what is to become of us? Things cannot go on much longer as they are.

Alphonse Daudet - The Nabob