Word: burgundian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French shopwindows. As the Nazis dashed toward Paris, French soldiers lay by the roadside, nursing bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical father, urging her to do likewise...
Original Pontigny. In his Burgundian abbey, Historian-Critic Paul Desjardins, a Sevres normal-school professor, during 23 summers assembled groups of scholars, writers, artists, for decades (ten-day periods). They drank the local wine, walked by the local river, played intellectual games, reveled in organized chats on fixed topics led by experts. Old Pontigny stars: Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Roger Fry, Gaetano Salvemini...
GERMANY Seven years ago, sitting in his gloomy chateau at St. Gilles in eastern France, Johannes Thomasset, a gentleman farmer, spare-time poet, Francophobe and "passionate lover" of all things Germanic, dreamed of Burgundian knights of old, of Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...