Word: cimeti
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...Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support of the Republicans and the Popular Front now seems pedestrian; French painting had no equivalent to Malraux's Espoir or Georges Bernanos' Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune...
Died. Paul Valéry, 73, famed French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière Marin, Varétés I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author - it is my kind of beauty...
...spiritual blaze of equal force and infinitely greater sanity. The writer: Georges Bernanos, a French Catholic layman known to Americans as the author of a fine novel, Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940), and a furious, eyewitness denunciation of the Fascist "Holy War" in Spain, Les Grands Cimetières Sous La Lune (The Vast Graveyards Under the Moon...
...Alfred de Musset in Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery crashed in a windstorm, fell against the tomb, broke the bust of the poet who had loved willows, and shattered the marble tablet bearing his verses that begin: "Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai, Plantez un laule au cimeti...
...among Catholics over Spain. The publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit...
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