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...Short Novels of Colette, you speak of the eminent writer as being "now a distinguished member of the French Academy." Since when has that body of so-called immortals, senescent gynophobes, honored Madame Colette? I know that she is the president of the lesser Académie Goncourt, and followed the Comtesse de Noailles as a member of the Belgian Académie Royal de Langue et de Littérature Française. But her membership in the Academic Française is news to me, as indeed it must be to that body itself...
FRANCE Green Eyes "From the first it was Sylvie's eyes," wrote French Novelist Jean-Louis Bory (1945 Prix Goncourt). "I saw them as green, but was it green? Clear and deep, surely-and with a cold limpid quality that masked her glance better than closed eyelids." Others had gazed into Sylvie Paul's eyes and tried to plumb their mystery-fellow fighters in the Resistance, German officers from whom she coaxed many a secret, Gestapo bullies at Ravensbrück concentration camp...
Died. Maxence van der Meersch, 43, Flemish-born French novelist (Invasion; Hath Not the Potter, which won 1936's Prix Goncourt), in Le Touquet...
...Behind that door," said the Frenchman, "the members of the Goncourt Academy are selecting the best one of the 300 novels published in France this year for Edmond de Goncourt 's 5,000-franc prize...
...inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes to Paul Colin for his novel Les jeux sauvages...