Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know what death is?" Charles de Gaulle asked his former Minister of Culture, André Malraux. "The goddess of sleep," the renowned French novelist replied, adding: "We belong to that category of people who don't care about being killed." That lofty dialogue is part of Les Chênes Qu'On Abat (Fallen Oaks). Malraux's 236-page account of an "interview" between the two men eleven months before De Gaulle's death. Published in Paris last week, the book reveals little of substance that is new about De Gaulle but provides plenty of fresh...
...cost of $105 each. Installing a bust of Brigitte at his party's headquarters in Paris, Radical Party Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber said: "We should be proud of her, of Roquefort cheese and of Bordeaux wine. They are the products that bring us the most profit." Andre Malraux, the celebrated author and former Minister of Culture, asked for and was sent a copy...
...revolutionary, Mao Tse-tung is obsessed with the knowledge that revolutionary sacrifice swiftly settles into slothful bureaucracy and the status quo, unless the people are regularly-and forcefully-stirred up. "Revolutions and children," he confided to André Malraux in 1965, "have to be trained if they are to be properly brought up ... Youth must be put to the test." Less than a year afterwards, a curious convulsion known as "the Cultural Revolution" was under...
André Malraux, the writer and intellectual who served as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture, called him "a man of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow." Like most crusaders, De Gaulle was extraordinarily farsighted but sometimes, maddeningly, he deliberately seemed to narrow his vision. From the day he proclaimed a French government in exile during World War II, his imperious manner and fragile sensibilities frequently infuriated his nation's closest allies. In a vain effort to force French leadership on Europe, he twice vetoed Britain's entry into the Continent's first...
WITH those words, Andre Malraux last November expressed a widely held belief about his old chief. Many Frenchmen felt that even after Charles de Gaulle had abandoned the Presidency of the Fifth Republic, he nonetheless would continue to exercise a profound influence on the country's politics...