Word: genevoix
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...audacious lady was Francoise Parturier, 51, novelist, essayist, fervent feminist and front-page columnist for Le Figaro. When she applied last October, few of the 35 members took her seriously (the Academy has 40 places, but five members have died since last March). Still Maurice Genevoix, the Academy's secretary, declared: "Nothing forbids a woman to become a member. Only once before in the Academy's history, in 1893, did a woman try to be a candidate. And we violated our statutes by refusing...
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