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Write Sorrow on the Earth is chiefly the story of three people: an ex-professor named Paul Boissière, a young Spaniard whose nom-de-guerre is Bob, and Paul's wife Simone. Paul, at 38, is a middle-class intellectual whose revolutionary sympathies, though they have not frozen him along a party line, have impelled him to become a leader among the maquisards of the Vercors, in southeastern France. Bob, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is already, at 24, a seasoned revolutionary soldier. Paul and Bob have developed a close father-&-son-and brain-&-bravery...
...vigorous anti-war crusader himself, Columnist Pegler had stumbled on the work of one of the bitterest and most effective enemies of war in France. Jean Galtier-Boissière founded Crapouillot (name of a small trench cannon) in 1915, at first distributed it only to his fellow soldiers. After the War he branched out, took a partner, began to make journalistic history with a brand of fearless muckraking which caused French citizens' eyes to pop, French officials' hair to rise. With stark facts and photographs Crapouillot took out such disagreeable subjects as the origins and secret causes...
Crapouillot now appears bimonthly, has an average circulation of 50,000 which occasionally spurts to 100,000. Tall, handsome, 47, author of four novels, Editor Galtier-Boissière is famed as a gourmet and as the best-dressed of French literati. His immunity from libel suits makes knowing Frenchmen nod, credit his exposures with deadly accuracy...
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