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Bernanos

American  
[ber-na-naws] / bɛr naˈnɔs /

noun

  1. Georges 1888–1948, French novelist and pamphleteer.


Bernanos British  
/ bɛrnanos /

noun

  1. Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)

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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

But he always held to his own vision and met the exacting definition of an individual set down by French Philosopher Georges Bernanos: "A man who gives himself or refuses himself, but never lends himself."

From Time Magazine Archive

A heroic Christianity is what Bernanos demands, and he thinks the elements for it are ready.

From Time Magazine Archive

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