Word: yourcenar
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Sources close to the Board of Overseers' Standing Committee on Honorary Degrees said yesterday that the list of recipients included a French woman, prompting speculation that the novelist Simone Well, president of the European Parliament, or Marguerite Yourcenar will receive an honorary. Yourcenar was recently elected to the Academie Francaise, the first woman ever to be honored by that center of the French intellectual establishment...
...admission" of Author Marguerite Yourcenar to the company of "immortals," the Académie Française [Feb. 16], points up the two choices that are open to brilliant women who are praised belatedly and paternalistically. They can either refuse the honor on the ground that it is unacceptable from such groups, or accept it in order to set a precedent for others. Virginia Woolf responded to many universities offering honorary degrees in the first way. Yourcenar has replied in the second. If I were she, I would have suggested where the monkeys might put their peanuts. Judging from your...
...since the elite 40-member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled that...