Bernanos
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Because as Georges Bernanos, the French author and first world war soldier, wrote: “It takes a lot of rebels to make a free people.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2017
The pungent realist who adapted a novel by the Robert Bresson collaborator Georges Bernanos, earning catcalls at Cannes in the process?
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
Poulenc wrote the French libretto, adapted from a play by Georges Bernanos, and his music is an uncanny balancing act: restrained yet lush, refined yet wrenching.
From New York Times • May 6, 2013
Georges Bernanos rode in the French Cavalry in World War I, receiving a chest wound and a Croix de Guerre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joan of Arc, France's patron saint�who was persuaded by her inquisitors to deny her visionary powers�has long served Bernanos as a symbol of Republican France.
From Time Magazine Archive
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