Word: fran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French politicos and journalists are hot under the collar because of a new book with the provocative title The Vatican Against France. Its author: Protestant François Mejan, onetime (1946-50) head of the French Interior Ministry's Direction des Cultes (which keeps a discreet watch on the activities of all religious groups in France). The book's thesis: the Roman Catholic Church is undermining France's prestige and power in her colonies, especially Africa, by setting up a native clergy instead of depending on French missionaries...
HOUSE OF LIES, by Françoise Mallet-Joris (311 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), is a novel with a curiously old fashioned, even Gothic air. An old, wealthy brewer is slowly dying of heart disease in a provincial Belgian town. Around him hovers a cluster of relatives who live for nothing more than the huge fortune they hope to slice. Only one person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already...
...wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure, I will not strike the faces of my brothers"). Since that time, Camus has become what François Mauriac calls "the conscience of the [French] younger generation...
THOSE WITHOUT SHADOWS (125 pp.)−Françoise Sagan − Dutton ($2.95). Fifty million Frenchmen cannot only be wrong, they can be plain silly. Since the beginning of last month they have bought nearly 350,000 copies (the U.S. equivalent of more than 1,000,000 sales) of a new novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair...
...offers more of the same−other vices, other rooms, and a whole collection of young-old aphorisms at the level of: "the most jaded appetite can be stimulated by privation." No privation could be healthier for U.S. literary appetites than a season or two without a book by Françoise Sagan...