Poum and AlexandreThis is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to themthe old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns, and the ominous concierges who dog their footsteps. Alexandre is a banker and a Resistant, living in a world of numbers and Roman emperors. Poum resides in the