Claudel

[kloh-del]

noun

Camille,1864–1943, French sculptor.
Paul (Louis Charles) [pawl lwee sharl] /pɔl lwi ʃarl/, 1868–1955, French diplomat, poet, and dramatist.

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Contemporary Examples of claudel

The Investigator is “a disappearing person, no sooner seen than forgotten,” Claudel writes.
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Historical Examples of claudel

Mrs. Claudel knew then that he had been looking and in a way then was loving.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
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Mrs. Claudel then was continuing in being one married to Mr. Claudel then.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
He knew that Mrs. Claudel knew that thing that looking and loving is not anything.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Claudel, even more remote as a thinker from Nietzsche than Péguy, exhibits a kindred temper in the ingrained violence of his art.
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Mrs. Claudel if she believed in dreams as much as Hattie and had dreamed that her mother was dead would put on mourning.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

British Dictionary definitions for claudel

Claudel

noun

Paul (Louis Charles Marie) (pɔl). 1868–1955, French dramatist, poet, and diplomat, whose works testify to his commitment to the Roman Catholic faith. His plays include L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912) and Le Soulier de satin (1919–24)

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