Les Maîtres is the sixth volume in Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel , was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit , the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin...

's Chronique des Pasquier. It tells the story of Laurent Pasquier, a research student who is working for two rival academics, professors Chalgrin and Rohner. Gradually Laurent sees that the admiration with which his masters discuss each other is a thin veil over a bitter rivalry, which one day erupts with disastrous consequences for all concerned.