Claudel

[ kloh-del ]

/ kloʊˈdɛl /

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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Examples from the Web for claudel

The Investigator is “a disappearing person, no sooner seen than forgotten,” Claudel writes.
3 Must-Read Offbeat Novels: ‘A Million Heavens,’ ‘The Investigation,’ ‘Office Girl’|Drew Toal, Kevin Canfield, Daniel Roberts|July 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Claudel moved that Norwood should be made a member of the committee; and this, of course, was bitterly opposed by the radicals.
Jimmie Higgins|Upton Sinclair
Adrienne reads aloud to us in the evenings; a man called Claudel; awfully stiff French to follow but rather beautiful.
Adrienne Toner|Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Mrs. Claudel knew then that he had been looking and in a way then was loving.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein|Gertrude Stein

But then, a little later, it began to be suspected that she had designs upon Comrade Claudel, the Belgian jeweller.
Jimmie Higgins|Upton Sinclair
Claudel, even more remote as a thinker from Nietzsche than Péguy, exhibits a kindred temper in the ingrained violence of his art.
Recent Developments in European Thought|Various

British Dictionary definitions for claudel

Claudel

/ (French klodɛl) /

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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