Monsieur Grandet enjoyed a reputation in Saumur whose causes and effects can never be fully understood by those who have not, at one time or another, lived in the provinces.
I don't know much aside from the fact that " Men in Black 2" is a joyless cash grab, but I do know that whatever you have brewing around in your noggin really connected with you.
For instance, in the early 1920s he had begun work on what eventually became a six volume study of the lead up to, course of and aftermath of the First World War, which he published as The World Crisis.