Word: ves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the role of women in French literature was limited to giving male writers something to write about. Madame de La Fayette (who in 1678 wrote the first French novel, La Princesse de Clèves), Madame de Staël, George Sand and a handful of other women did write, and very well, but they were exceptions. The greatest exception of all was Colette (1873-1954), one of the finest of all French stylists, whose women were always too good for men, but not good enough to do without them. In the path cleared by Colette, an army...
...French-born parish priest, scurried for a cup of black coffee. By the time he had returned with it, 'Alina, her paralysis gone, was able to sit up and drink. She was rushed off to the hospital at nearby Gonaïves, then moved 'to another at Port-au-Prince. There, some 600 curious Haitians visited the ward to gape at la revenante (the returned one). Many nodded knowingly and whispered tales of the walking dead. Said Alina: "When I died, I found myself in a place where a lot of people were talking and taking their pleasure...