Bernanos

American  

[ber-na-naws] / bɛr naˈnɔs /

noun

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

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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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Example Sentences

She easily jousts with reporters, even while working a crowd, brushing off a British television reporter who questioned her electoral potential at one stop with a quotation from the right-wing Roman Catholic author George Bernanos.

From New York Times • May 3, 2017

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

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, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

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