Word: royalists
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...audience: "If you wish to pray or if you wish to sit in silent meditation in a quiet corner and have music of words, you will get it from this poet. But if you want clarity on human issues, he's out - he's zero . . .antidemocratic . . medievalist . . . royalist . . . and so close to Fascist that I'm off him, to use a truck driver's phrase. And we've got to consider the truck drivers in the present hour, rather than the intellectuals...
Georges Bernanos is a French Catholic Royalist and a writer of furious eloquence. Best known of his novels is The Diary of A Country Priest. Les Grands Cimetieres sous la Lime (A Diary of My Times) was an excoriation of Generalissimo Franco's fascism which has been called "the greatest tract in a hundred years." The Star of Satan, first published in 1926, was awarded the Prix Goncourt. His first novel, it is sometimes spoken of as the fountainhead of the revival of idealism in French literature. In manner as well as in substance it dares extremes of intensity...
Died. Julie Daudet, 93, devoted widow of the late great French author Alphonse Daudet (Lettres de Mon Moulin, Tartarin de Tarascon), mother of French Royalist Leader Leon Daudet, herself a writer of books, articles; of old age; in Paris...