Word: thibault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alley turned out a song for the Free French-I'm a Soldier of De Gaulle, by the French-descended radio singer Conrad Thibault (published by Mills Music, Inc.). United Free France (De Gaulle agency in the U.S.) accepted the song as "official." Copies were sent to General de Gaulle in London, to Free French headquarters in Beirut (Syria) and Brazzaville (French Equatorial Africa). Sample English chorus...
...world of letters blinked a little in 1937 when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Roger Martin du Gard. His long novel, Les Thibault, was little known outside France; he was something of a recluse who saw what he wanted to see of the world through a peephole, and who wrote from a photostatic recollection of his own top-drawer bourgeois life before and during World War I. When, after the award was announced, a reporter tried to stop the scurrying prizewinner for questions, Martin du Card refused to talk. The reporter asked why. For the same reason...
...Germans broke into France last year. With his wife, who had a broken arm and shoulder in a plaster cast, he fled to the south of France, where he still is. The Nazis thoroughly messed up the Normandy house, but Stuart Gilbert, who was translating the last of Les Thibault into English, managed to slip out with his manuscript. Published this week as Summer 1914, it brings the novel to a close (1,800-odd pages in all) and also finishes off the Thibaults as a family...
When Summer 1914 opens, M. Thibault, racked by spasms of pain and terror, has died of convulsive uremia-a deathbed scene which Martin du Gard writes with the clean brutality of a clinical treatise. Jacques, matured and forceful, is a respected leader in a colony of revolutionists in Switzerland. He has decided that what he wants is a part in a revolutionary world change, but his soul is still troubled. He has a consuming pity for the mass of men, a great contempt for their rulers, but he lacks a blind faith in revolutionary slogans and formulas, and worse...