Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fought in the Resistance. Any kind of affiliation with De Gaulle, past or present, qualifies a man for the Directory. Thus Raymond Aron, now an opponent of De Gaulle, is listed along with heir-apparent Michele Debre and obscure hatchetmen like Jean-Baptiste Biaggi. "Minister of the word" Andre Malraux ("an elderly uncle whose whims are tolerated with amused indulgence") appears along with plotters, soldiers, relatives and arch-traitor Jacques Soustelle...
...front row, from left: Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux, Premier Georges Pompidou, Overseas Minister Louis Jacquinot...
...national patrimony. Both the Philadelphia Bathers and the National Gallery's new acquisition were sold from the collection of a staunch Gaul, the late Auguste Pellerin, margarine magnate and one of the original collectors of Cézanne. But French fury focused on Culture Minister André Malraux, who has had the power since 1961 to instigate the refusal of export permits for outstanding works of native art. "Doesn't he like Cézanne?" asked Critic Pierre Cabanne in the weekly Arts. "This painting belonged first and foremost to la France...
...recognizing Moulin's great wartime contribution. Some saw the ceremony as designed to inaugurate De Gaulle's presidential campaign. But there come moments in France when political passion and factional rivalry are briefly overshadowed by a sense of history and literature. One such occurred when Andre Malraux, De Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs and leading literary prophet, delivered a eulogy for Moulin that virtually all political factions hailed as a masterpiece...
With an emotionalism that sounds slightly too rich in any language but French, Malraux noted that when Moulin was seized by the Gestapo, "the destiny of the Resistance depended upon the courage of this man. And here today in France triumphant we have the victory of this silence so terribly paid for." Dramatically addressing the dead Moulin, Malraux cried: "You, leader of the martyred Resistance fighters who died in cellars, look with your empty eye sockets at all the women in black who now keep watch over our companions!" Malraux closed with an appeal to the 16 million Frenchmen...