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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)

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The French author Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes in white ink on a white page.”

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2020

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

Author de Montherlant begins by giving pages of letters written to Costals, a successful novelist, by his feminine admirers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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