Example sentences (6)
Georges Braque, André Derain, Picasso, Czobel, Othon Friesz, Herbin, Metzinger—these are a few of the names signed to canvases before which Paris has stood and now again stands in blank amazement.
However, before Othon can do this, he contracts the plague and dies.
Othon treats his wife and children unkindly, but after his son dies of the plague, his character softens.
Tarrou and Rambert visit one of the isolation camps, where they meet Othon.
Towards the end of October, Castel's new antiplague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou tend to his bedside in horror.
When Othon's period of quarantine ends, he chooses to stay in the camp as a volunteer because this will make him feel less separated from his dead son.