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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Matard, Corlay, Kerenor entitled Assignment in Brittany.
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conversations.value: Assignment in Brittany: Free French Captain Pierre Matard (Aumont) is assigned the task of locating a concealed U-boat pen in occupied France due to his striking resemblance to Bertrand Corlay, a suspected Nazi collaborator being held prisoner by the British.\nAt the Corlay family farm, Madame Henriette Corlay (Margaret Wycherly), Bertrand's mother, eventually realizes Matard is not her son, but does not give him away, as she disapproves of Bertrand's cooperation with the Germans.\nMatard has better luck fooling both Anne Pinot (Susan Peters) and Elise (Signe Hasso), Bertrand's fiancee and mistress respectively.\nAfter French Resistance contact Louis Basdevant is unmasked as a turncoat, Matard forces him at gunpoint to get him into a heavily guarded town.\nWhen the masquerade is uncovered, Matard shoots Basdevant and a German officer and escapes by jumping in the harbor.\nThere, he witnesses a U-boat entering a hidden pen.\nHe gives a coded message to Plehec (William Edmunds) to transmit on his wireless, but the man is caught.\nMatard is also taken.\nThough a number of civilians refuse to betray him (and are shot), Plehec's young nephew Etienne (Darryl Hickman) identifies him.\nWhen Matard refuses to tell Captain Hans Holz (George Coulouris) the location of the wireless, he is tortured for days.\nSchoolteacher and Resistance member Jean Kerenor (Richard Whorf) and other villagers manage to free him.\nHidden in a secret room beneath the church, he is nursed back to health by Anne.\nEtienne shows up, telling Matard that his uncle had instructed him to do whatever he had to in order to protect the wireless.\nThe boy takes Matard to it; Matard sends the location to his superiors.\nA commando raid is organized, led by Colonel Trane (Reginald Owen).\nOn the way to rendezvous with the British, Matard and Kerenor stumble upon Elise and Holz in each other's arms.\nFurious that he had defended Elise from the charge of collaboration all this time, Kerenor shoots the captain and strangles the woman.\nAfter they depart, Madame Corlay arrives, attracted by the sound of gunfire.\nWhen she hears German soldiers approach, she grabs the pistol and allows herself to be captured to shield the others.\nMatard joins some of the soldiers in the assault on the control room.\nWhen they are trapped inside, they are rescued by Kerenor, who attacks the Germans from behind, though he himself is finally killed.\nThe pens are blown up, and the commandos re-embark on their boats.\nAboard, Matard finds Anne and Etienne.
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conversations.value: Assignment in Brittany: Free French Captain Pierre Matard (Aumont) is assigned the task of locating a concealed U-boat pen in occupied France due to his striking resemblance to Bertrand Corlay, a suspected Nazi collaborator being held prisoner by the British. \nAt the Corlay family farm, Madame Henriette Corlay (Margaret Wycherly), Bertrand's mother, eventually realizes Matard is not her son, but does not give him away, as she disapproves of Bertrand's cooperation with the Germans. \nMatard has better luck fooling both Anne Pinot (Susan Peters) and Elise (Signe Hasso), Bertrand's fiancee and mistress respectively. \nAfter French Resistance contact Louis Basdevant is unmasked as a turncoat, Matard forces him at gunpoint to get him into a heavily guarded town. \nWhen the masquerade is uncovered, Matard shoots Basdevant and a German officer and escapes by jumping in the harbor. \nThere, he witnesses a U-boat entering a hidden pen. \nHe gives a coded message to Plehec (William Edmunds) to transmit on his wireless, but the man is caught. \nMatard is also taken. \nThough a number of civilians refuse to betray him (and are shot), Plehec's young nephew Etienne (Darryl Hickman) identifies him. \nWhen Matard refuses to tell Captain Hans Holz (George Coulouris) the location of the wireless, he is tortured for days. \nSchoolteacher and Resistance member Jean Kerenor (Richard Whorf) and other villagers manage to free him. \nHidden in a secret room beneath the church, he is nursed back to health by Anne. \nShe, knowing his true identity, admits she loves him, much to his delight. \nEtienne shows up, telling Matard that his uncle had instructed him to do whatever he had to in order to protect the wireless. \nThe boy takes Matard to it; Matard sends the location to his superiors. \nA commando raid is organized, led by Colonel Trane (Reginald Owen). \nOn the way to rendezvous with the British, Matard and Kerenor stumble upon Elise and Holz in each other's arms. \nFurious that he had defended Elise from the charge of collaboration all this time, Kerenor shoots the captain and strangles the woman. \nAfter they depart, Madame Corlay arrives, attracted by the sound of gunfire. \nWhen she hears German soldiers approach, she grabs the pistol and allows herself to be captured to shield the others. \nMatard joins some of the soldiers in the assault on the control room. \nWhen they are trapped inside, they are rescued by Kerenor, who attacks the Germans from behind, though he himself is finally killed. \nThe pens are blown up, and the commandos re-embark on their boats. \nAboard, Matard finds Anne and Etienne.
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conversations.value: Provide the first four paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence ' But he was too tired: he gave up the effort.'.
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conversations.value: Assignment in Brittany
  Kerénor's suspicion ended as quickly as it had begun. "It was simple. There might have been the noise of a movement from upstairs. The guard came to the foot of the staircase. Silence. He came up the staircase with a torch and the gun. Then he turned to go back downstairs. The door in the corridor, through which you escaped, opened. Our man came forward. In the old days he was the best smuggler in the district. Bare feet make no noise. Neither do large hands wrapped tightly round a German's throat."
  Kerénor said, "Yes, there was, wasn't there?" His eyes were mocking, and Hearne knew he would be told no more than he had guessed already. But, looking at Kerénor's triumph, he knew his guess had been near the truth.
  Kerénor was dusting the seat of his trousers. He seemed interested in the weave of the material. "After the meeting yesterday Elise spoke to me. It's most unfortunate that Picrel turned out to be such a bad orator. There was only one thing Corlay and I had in common—the ability to talk."
  He nodded. "Most of all," he said. There was something else he had meant to ask...what was it?.. But he was too tired: he gave up the effort.
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conversations.value: Hearne climbed higher on the hill. The clouds were piling up, hiding the quarter moon. When he turned to watch Kerénor he couldn't see him, but he knew the Frenchman was making his way along the backs of the buildings to reach the house of Guézennec. Hearne listened. There was no sound from the roadway or from that row of houses. Kerénor must be safe.
  He looked towards the meadows beyond the church. After the first alarm the Germans had been quiet enough. First, they would encircle the wood, for the sentries in the camp would identify it as the place from where the sound of a shot had come. And then they'd have to start searching carefully, working inwards from the edge of the trees. If they did it as throughly as he expected, then they would probably now be finding the bodies. There would be something of a scandal, too. The men who found Elise would have something to talk about for the next few weeks. Hearne's lips tightened. Well, she had earned it, and there was a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the body she had loved so much had earned it for her. He was beginning to believe that Kerénor had still clung to the futile hope that, in some way, she might be innocent, that she had been misled by Corlay. Kerénor had held to his wishful thinking, until tonight. And then there had been no doubt left.
  Hearne paused as he reached the crest of the hill, and looked back at Saint-Déodat. It was a group of vague black shadows clustering under the proud towers of the church. This was the way it had been when he first crossed this hill four weeks ago. Then he had believed it incapable of change. It still looked the same, but the changes were there, as deep and powerful as they were invisible.
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conversations.value: Hearne climbed higher on the hill. The clouds were piling up, hiding the quarter moon. When he turned to watch Kerénor he couldn't see him, but he knew the Frenchman was making his way along the backs of the buildings to reach the house of Guézennec. Hearne listened. There was no sound from the roadway or from that row of houses. Kerénor must be safe.
  He looked towards the meadows beyond the church. After the first alarm the Germans had been quiet enough. First, they would encircle the wood, for the sentries in the camp would identify it as the place from where the sound of a shot had come. And then they'd have to start searching carefully, working inwards from the edge of the trees. If they did it as throughly as he expected, then they would probably now be finding the bodies. There would be something of a scandal, too. The men who found Elise would have something to talk about for the next few weeks. Hearne's lips tightened. Well, she had earned it, and there was a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the body she had loved so much had earned it for her. He was beginning to believe that Kerénor had still clung to the futile hope that, in some way, she might be innocent, that she had been misled by Corlay. Kerénor had held to his wishful thinking, until tonight. And then there had been no doubt left.
  Hearne paused as he reached the crest of the hill, and looked back at Saint-Déodat. It was a group of vague black shadows clustering under the proud towers of the church. This was the way it had been when he first crossed this hill four weeks ago. Then he had believed it incapable of change.
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conversations.value: Provide the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: The officer returned from his tour of the crowded boat. "Worst is over now," he said as he looked down at Anne. "We got her in time, I think. By the way, do you happen to be Matthews' young man who was to be picked up on Saturday? Matthews was fuming when he found we had this operation all planned for tonight. Might have been nasty if you had crossed the Nazis' trail when they were on the warpath."
  Hearne shook his head. Better that than this. Better that than Anne lying at his feet with a bullet in her lung. He pressed her hand convulsively.
  The last flare filtered away. Above them was the drone of planes, searching in vain. The stark coast of Brittany had darkened into the night. But the coldness had left his heart. Within his grasp, Anne's hand moved gently, hopefully.
  Born in Scotland, she studied at the University of Glasgow and University College, London, then went to Oxford after her marriage to Gilbert Highet, the eminent critic and educator. In 1937 the Highets went to New York, and except during her husband's war service, Helen MacInnes lived there ever since.