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Berlin fell. Hitler was reported dead. Paris was deeply stirred-for Gabrielle Colette, author of The Gentle Libertine and 20 other novels about love, had been elected to the Académie Goncourt. Now she would sit with "The Ten," the living literary immortals who each year award the Prix Goncourt to the best French novel. One newspaper killed Hitler's obituary to make way for Colette's biography...
Author Maurras himself had predicted: "L'Académie est trop grande dame pour m'exclure-The Academy is too great a lady to expel me." Maurras was right. The 20 Academicians put their heads together. Immortal Maurras, they reasoned, had lost his "national dignity." Therefore, his colleagues gravely decided, they did not need to expel him: his seat was already vacant. Then, with greater haste than they had ever shown, the 20 Immortals turned back to the pressing problems of the word...
...France's Immortals, the black-robed Académie Française, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps...
Even the hoary savants of the Académie Française felt the danger of provoking an internal French crisis by taking steps against Italian Fascism to be so acute that a dozen of them manifestoed: "It is with stupefaction that we see the [British] people whose vast colonial empire includes one-fifth of the Earth appearing in opposition to young Italy's justifiable enterprise. . . . The League of Nations must not commit the folly of dealing with a civilized nation [Italy] and a barbarous nation [Ethiopia] on the same footing. . . . The risk must not be run of plunging...
Last week the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux was calling for a song to make Frenchmen drink more wine. In dead earnest it posted a 5,000-franc ($300) prize for the best Hymn to the Wine of Bordeaux, with words and music, submitted before April 12 by a person of French birth...