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
To Bernanos, France remains at heart a Christian and human patrie of which he believes 18th-Century economic nationalism made nothing but a caricature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling.
From Time Magazine Archive
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