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Georges Bernanos
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France's defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un cu…
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culture · French writer (1888–1948) · writer · novelist · essayist · journalist · librettist · also Georges Bernanos, Bernanos
Born 20 February 1888 · Died 5 July 1948 · Q315072
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Marianne: "Échec et mat au paradis", de Sébastien Lapaque : Georges Bernanos et Stefan Zweig enfin réunis
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2022· 1 entry
Marianne: Dominique Trinquand : "Comme Georges Bernanos, ne désespérons pas"
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2021· 2 entries
AgoraVox: Georges Bernanos, la foi de l’instransigeance
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Le Figaro: Georges Bernanos, la colère et la grâce de François Angelier: l’angoisse de vivre et de mourir
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2019· 2 entries
L'Humanité: Georges Bernanos Les imbéciles veulent apprivoiser le fascisme
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Linternaute.com: Georges Bernanos : biographie courte, dates, citations
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2018· 2 entries
la Nouvelle République: Hommage à Georges Bernanos, enterré depuis 70 ans à Pellevoisin
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Le Figaro: 70 ans après la mort de Georges Bernanos, l'hommage de Sébastien Lapaque
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2011· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Georges Bernanos, l'écrivain itinérant
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2009· 1 entry
Fabula: Les grands cimetières sous la lune de Georges Bernanos : témoignage d’un homme libre ou imposture ?
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1951· 1 entry
As Die begnadete Angst (The Blessed Fear) and first staged in Zürich and Munich that year
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century for The Diary of a Country Priest (1950).
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1948· 4 entries
Died 1948-07-05.
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“Ser reacionário é ser vivo, porque só um cadáver não reage aos vermes que o corroem.”
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“O inferno é não se amar mais. Enquanto estamos vivos, podemos nos iludir, acreditar que amamos por nossas próprias forças, que amamos sem Deus. Mas nos assemelhamos aos loucos, que estendem os braços para o reflexo da lua na água...”
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“Quando não tiver mais que um par de nádegas para pensar, irei sentá-las na academia.”
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1947· 1 entry
Bernanos had been hired to write the dialogue for a film screenplay, through Raymond-Léopold Bruckberger and the scenario writer Philippe Agostini, based on the novella The Song at the Scaffold by the German writer Gertr
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936).
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Femina for Joy (1929).
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-02-20.
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