Word: bossuet
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Hope & Despair. For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
Actually, of course, it never works out quite that way. But when luck is with him, Handicapper Campbell has had some spectacular moments. The biggest: in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct in 1944, when he put 127 pounds on Bossuet, 118 on Wait-a-Bit, 115 on Brownie, saw them finish in a triple dead heat, the first in U.S. handicap racing history...