Mauriac

American  

[maw-ryahk] / mɔˈrjɑk /

noun

1. François 1885–1970, French novelist: Nobel Prize 1952.

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Mauriac British  

/ mɔrjak /

noun

1. François (frɑ̃swa). 1885–1970, French novelist, noted esp for his psychological studies of the conflict between religious belief and human desire. His works include Le désert de l'amour (1925), Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), and Le nœud de vipères (1932): Nobel prize for literature 1952

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Mauriac

Belgian Lotte Kopecky, who won stage one, launched her sprint at the end of a wet, 152km hilly route from Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac first.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2023

Wiazemsky, a granddaughter of Nobel literature laureate François Mauriac, was a sometime muse and later a chronicler of Godard’s pioneering role in the French New Wave movement.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2017

He embarked on the memoir with the encouragement of the French author François Mauriac, whom he had interviewed while working for a Tel Aviv newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2016

At the encouragement of the French writer François Mauriac, whom he interviewed as a journalist in the 1950s, Mr. Wiesel submitted the manuscript for publication in France.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2016

Aetius shows a strange lack of courage or of resource, and we find it difficult to recognize in him the victor of the Mauriac plains.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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