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...Sartre (twice), Francois Mauriac, Francoise Sagan. Because, at this stage, the S.A.O. wants to intimidate Frenchmen, not infuriate them, the bombs are usually exploded at times and places when they are not likely to kill. So far, only two have died in S.A.O. bombings in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

There were other casualties. The war's savagery, and especially the revelation of French torture of F.L.N. prisoners, caused a painful crisis of conscience among the French, from Roman Catholic François Mauriac to left-wing Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. The war's seeming insolubility brought down the Fourth Republic and enabled Charles de Gaulle to come to power as the one man with sufficient stature to end it. Last week peace seemed closer than ever, as the F.L.N. announced its willingness to settle on the basis of an Algerian plebiscite, agreed to a "transition" period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Eighth Year of War | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

When the novel appeared in France two years ago, Critic Claude Mauriac, son of Novelist François Mauriac, hailed it as marking "the return of Aragon to the literary fold . . . His non-Communist colleagues-this is to say practically the whole body of French writers-have once again recognized him as one of them-even as a member of the first rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Flight of the King | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...seven years, the stylistic elegance of Nobel Laureate François Mauriac graced the back page of Paris' lively L'Express with a conscientious Catholic conservatism that seemed startlingly out of place in the left-wing weekly. Last week the agreement to disagree came to an end when Mauriac quit, flew to the side of his President. "Mauriac loves De Gaulle as the English love their Queen," said L'Express Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. "For us, De Gaulle is only a politician and love is not a problem. François Mauriac has abandoned his fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...private note to Premier Khrushchev, asking whether she had, in fact, been jailed. Subsequently, a letter-writing campaign by famous authors of the Western world was started in behalf of the woman and her daughter. Among those who have sent letters thus far are Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger to Work For Russian's Release | 1/23/1961 | See Source »

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