Word: menceau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously in Paris, London and New York last week appeared the book Clémenceau finished a few days before his death (TIME, Dec. 2). He called it Gran-deur et Misere d'une Victoire.* On one of its pages the Tiger growls: "May I be excused for having sought in these remarks the occasion for a homily? . . . Many people would perhaps have preferred anecdotes...
Those who prefer anecdotes have only to buy Clémenceau,? the new biography by his onetime secretary Jean Martet, which was included last week in the list of U.S. non-fiction best sellers. But minds strong enough to enjoy a draught of Clémenceau, grim, tremendous, stern and undiluted, will prefer Grandeur et Misere to anecdotes...
Secretary Martet once objected to Clémenceau that the Master's books seem to be written for himself rather than for humanity. "I agree," growled Le Tigre with satisfaction. He added sarcastically, "What a shame that I don't have three or four more years to live?I might have rewritten those books for my cook...
Drunken Priests. "Have you ever read anything of Claudel's?" Secretary Martet writes that he asked Clémenceau, referring of course to France's present Ambassador at Washington, M. Paul Claudel, poet and dramatist...
...Clémenceau: "I used to think he was a carburetor,? and then I read a few pages of him?no, he just didn't carburet. He has a kind of conscientious emptiness such as a Provengal would take on who is trying to attain an air of profundity. The Americans who read him between two halves of a football match must have a good laugh...