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Triangle Squared. When François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) fled to England in 1726 (he was in trouble with the police over a challenge to a duel), he discovered a new world-Pope, Swift and the Duchess of Marlborough. He was at home in the universe of Newtonian mathematics and adored everything English. Three years later he went back to France a dedicated Newtonian ("It is he." says Author Mitford, "who preserved for us the story of Newton and the apple") and a respectful admirer of "an English author who lived 150 years ago called Shakespeare ... He was quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sages of Cirey | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...FRANÇOIS MÉJAN Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Black Bishops | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hello, Emptiness! | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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