Maurois
Americannoun
noun
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“The history of France, a permanent miracle, has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels,” the French author André Maurois wrote.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
Sobered by his position and his responsibilities as a guide, Author Maurois is careful not to indulge his Gallic lightness but he does occasionally point a faintly ironic anecdote.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simone Andre Maurois, wife of the famed French biographer, tells the full, fabulous story of Miss Howard and Louis Napoleon for the first time.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The most difficult thing of all for the moralist," observes sage Author Maurois, "is to live in accordance with his own principles."
From Time Magazine Archive
With an introd. by Andre Maurois & illus. by Lynd Ward.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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