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Montherlant

American  
[mawn-ter-lahn] / mɔ̃ tɛrˈlɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Henry de 1896–1972, French author.


Montherlant British  
/ mɔ̃tɛrlɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Henri ( Millon ) de (ɑ̃ri də). 1896–1972, French novelist and dramatist: his novels include Les Jeunes Filles (1935–39) and Le Chaos et la nuit (1963)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One instance is his work for a modern retelling by Henry de Montherlant of the myth of Pasiphaë.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2015

The French writer Henry de Montherlant said that happiness writes white.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2013

Hemingway and his Paris crowd were very important to me; Joyce, Camus, Chekhov but also Henrik Ibsen and – in the German speaking countries – the nearly forgotten Henry de Montherlant.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2013

It's the Henry de Montherlant line that "happiness writes white."

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2012

But the author, the distinguished French Playwright Henry de Montherlant, has chosen to cast not only Celestino but the novel itself into absurdity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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