| Romain Rolland | |
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| Born | 29 January 1866 Clamecy, Nièvre |
| Died | 30 December 1944 (aged 78) Vézelay |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | French |
| Writing period | 1902–1944 |
| Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 |
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Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866–December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Clamecy is a commune of the Nièvre département, in France. General Description Clamecy is the capital of an arrondissement Nièvre is a department in the center of France named after the Nièvre River. Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty Legal residents and citizens To be French according to the first article of the Constitution is to be a citizen of France regardless of one's origin race or religion ( Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( –) (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, was a Russian Writer widely regarded This article is a general introduction to French literature For detailed information on French literature in specific historic periods see the separate historical articles in the Medieval French literature is for the purpose of this article Literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle For more information on historical developments in this period see Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France. French literature of the 17th century &mdashthe so-called Grand Siècle &mdashspans the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici French literature of the 18th century usually refers to the literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798 the year French literature of the nineteenth century is for the purpose of this article literature written in French from (roughly 1799 to 1900 French literature of the twentieth century is for the purpose of this article literature written in French from (roughly 1895 to 1990 Contemporary French literature is French literature roughly from the 1990s to Today. Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality by date of birth Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Jean-Christophe is a Novel, written in the " Bildungsroman " fashion in ten volumes by Romain Rolland published between 1904 and 1912
His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year "
His mind sculpted by a passion for music and discursive admiration for exceptional men, he sought a means of communion among men for his entire life. Through his advocacy for a 'people's theatre', he made a significant contribution towards the democratization of the theatre. Democratization ( British English: Democratisation) is the transition to a more democratic Political regime. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one Because of his insistence upon justice and his humanist ideal, he looked for peace during and after the First World War in the works of the philosophers of India ("Conversations with Rabindranath Tagore", and Mohandas Gandhi), then in the new world that the Soviet Union had built. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી moɦən̪d̪äs kəɾəmʧən̪d̪ gän̪d̪ʱi (2 October 1869 – 30 January The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 But he would not find peace except in writing his works. Romain Rolland was strongly influenced by the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, and authored several books (see bibliography below) on the subject. Vedanta ( Devanagari: sa वेदान्त Vedānta) is a spiritual tradition explained in the Upanishads that is concerned with the Self-realisation Hinduism is a religious tradition that originated in the Indian subcontinent. Romain Rolland ( 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French Dramatist, Essayist, Art historian
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Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre to a family of notaries; he had both peasants and wealthy townspeople in his lineage. Clamecy is a commune of the Nièvre département, in France. General Description Clamecy is the capital of an arrondissement Nièvre is a department in the center of France named after the Nièvre River. Writing introspectively in his Voyage intérieur (1942), he sees himself as a representative of an "antique species". Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He would cast these ancestors in a truculent bawdy tale Colas Breugnon (1919). Romain Rolland ( 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French Dramatist, Essayist, Art historian Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
Accepted to the École normale supérieure in 1886, he first studied philosophy, but his independence of spirit led him to abandon that so as not to submit to the dominant ideology. École Normale de Musique de ParisThe École normale supérieure (also known as Normale Sup’, Normale, ENS, ENS-Paris, ENS-Ulm or Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language He received his degree in history in 1889 and spent two years in Rome, where his encounter with Malwida von Meysenburg–who had been a friend of Nietzsche and of Wagner–and his discovery of Italian masterpieces were decisive for the development of his thought. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15 1844 August 25 1900 ( was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest When he returned to France in 1895, he received his doctoral degree with his thesis The origins of modern lyric theatre and his doctoral dissertation, A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and Scarlatti. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
Rolland's most significant contribution to the theatre lies in his advocacy for a 'popular theatre' in his essay Le Théâtre du peuple (1902). [1] "There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre", he wrote, "that the stage and auditiorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people". [2] The book was not published until 1913, but most of its contents had appeared in the Revue d'Art Dramatique between 1900 and 1903. Rolland attempted to put his theory into practice with his melodramatic dramas Danton (1900) and Le 14 juillet (1902), but it was his ideas that formed a major reference point for subsequent practitioners. Melodrama refers to theatre in which music is used to increase the spectator's emotional response or to suggest character types Theatre practitioner is a modern term to describe someone who both creates theatrical Performances and who produces a theoretical Discourse that [3]
| "The people have been gradually conquered by the bourgeois class, penetrated by their thoughts and now want only to resemble them. If you long for a people's art, begin by creating a people!" |
| Romain Rolland, Le Théâtre du peuple (1903). [4] |
The essay is part of a more general movement around the turn of that century towards the democratization of the theatre. Democratization ( British English: Democratisation) is the transition to a more democratic Political regime. The Revue had held a competition and tried to organize a "World Congress on People's Theatre", and a number of People's Theatres had opened across Europe, including the Freie Volksbühne movement ('Free People's Theatre') in Germany and Maurice Pottecher's Théâtre du Peuple in France. The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre" is a Theater in Berlin, Germany. The Théâtre du peuple is a theater located in Bussang, France, built in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher. Rolland was a disciple of Pottecher and dedicated Le Théâtre du peuple to him.
Rolland's approach is more aggressive, though, than Pottecher's poetic vision of theatre as a substitute 'social religion' bringing unity to the nation. Rolland indites the bourgeoisie for its appropriation of the theatre, causing it to slide into decadence, and the deleterious effects of its ideological dominance. An ideology is a set of beliefs aims and Ideas especially in politics In proposing a suitable repertoire for his people's theatre, Rolland rejects classical drama in the belief that it is either too difficult or too static to be of interest to the masses. Drawing on the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he proposes instead "an epic historical theatre of 'joy, force and intelligence' which will remind the people of its revolutionary heritage and revitalize the forces working for a new society" (in the words of Bradby and McCormick, quoting Rolland). [5] Rolland believed that the people would be improved by seeing heroic images of their past. Rousseau's influence may be detected in Rolland's conception of theatre-as-festivity, an emphasis that reveals a fundamental anti-theatrical prejudice: "Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. [. . . ] A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle. "[6]
He became a history teacher at Lycée Henri IV, then at the Lycée Louis le Grand, and member of the École française de Rome, then a professor of the History of Music at the Sorbonne, and History Professor at the École Normale Supérieure. The Lycée Henri-IV (sometimes called HIV, H4, or Henri-Quatre) is a public Secondary school located in Paris. The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (sometimes nicknamed LLG) is a public Secondary school located in Paris, widely regarded as one of the most demanding in Roman Historical Institutes are collegiate bodies established at Rome for the purpose of historical research notably in the Vatican archives. The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris first appeared in the second half of the 13th century
A demanding, yet timid, young man, he did not like teaching. He was not indifferent to youth: Jean-Christophe, Olivier and their friends, the heroes of his novels, are young people. But with real-life persons, youths as well as adults, Rolland maintained only a distant relationships. He was first and foremost a writer. Assured that literature would provide him with a modest income, he resigned from the university in 1912.
Romain Rolland was a lifelong pacifist. He protested against the first World War in Au-dessus de la Mêlée (1915), Above the Battle (Chicago, 1916). In 1924, his book on Gandhi contributed to the Indian nonviolent leader's reputation and the two men met in 1931. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી moɦən̪d̪äs kəɾəmʧən̪d̪ gän̪d̪ʱi (2 October 1869 – 30 January Nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of physical Violence.
In 1928 he and Hungarian scholar, philosopher and natural living experimenter Edmund Bordeaux Szekely founded the International Biogenic Society to promote and expand on their ideas of the integration of mind, body and spirit and the virtues of a natural, simple, vegetarian lifestyle. Edmund Bordeaux Szekely (ca 1900-1979 was a Hungarian scholar philosopher and natural living experimenter Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes Meat (including game and slaughter by-products Fish (including Shellfish and other sea
He moved to Villeneuve, on the shores of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) to devote himself to writing. Villeneuve is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (Lac Léman Léman Lac de Genève is the second largest freshwater Lake in Central Europe in terms of surface area (after His life was interrupted by health problems, and by travels to art exhibitions. His voyage to Moscow (1935), on the invitation of Maxim Gorky, was an opportunity to meet Stalin, whom he considered the greatest man of his time. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( In Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в ( &ndash June 18, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party Rolland served unofficially as ambassador of French artists to the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
In 1937, he came back to live in Vézelay, which, in 1940, was occupied by the Germans. Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France. During the occupation, he isolated himself in complete solitude.
Never stopping his work, in 1940, he finished his memoirs. He also placed the finishing touches on his musical research on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. Shortly before his death, he wrote Péguy (1944), in which he examines religion and socialism through the context of his memories. Charles Péguy ( January 7, 1873 - September 5, 1914) was a noted French Poet, Essayist and editor. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution He died December 30, 1944 in Vézelay. Events 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. 1816 - The Treaty of St Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France.
1923 saw the beginning of a correspondence between the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Rolland, who found that the admiration that he showed for Freud was reciprocated in equal measures (Freud proclaiming in a letter to him: "That I have been allowed to exchange a greeting with you will remain a happy memory to the end of my days. Sigmund Freud (ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt born Sigismund Shlomo Freud (May 6 1856 &ndash September 23 1939 was an Austrian Psychiatrist who founded "). [7] This correspondence introduced Freud to the concept of the "oceanic feeling" that Rolland had developed through his study of Eastern mysticism. Freud opened his next book Civilization and its Discontents (1929) with a debate on the nature of this feeling, which he mentioned had been noted to him by an anonymous "friend". Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur This friend was Rolland. Rolland would remain a major influence on Freud's work, continuing their correspondence right up to Freud's death in 1939. [8]
"If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. . . . For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. " [1], Life of Ramakrishna
"The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe. " [2], Life of Vivekananda.
| Romain Rolland Bibliography |
| Year | Work | Notes |
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| 1888 | Amour d'enfants | |
| 1891 | Les Baglioni | Unpublished during his lifetime. |
| 1891 | Empédocle (Empedocles) |
Unpublished during his lifetime. |
| 1891 | Orsino | Unpublished during his lifetime. |
| 1892 | Le Dernier Procès de Louis Berquin (The Last Trial of Louis Berquin) |
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| 1895 | Les Origines du théâtre lyrique moderne (The origins of modern lyric theatre) |
Academic treatise, which won a prize from the Académie Française |
| 1895 | Histoire de l'opéra avant Lully et Scarlatti (A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and Scarlatti) |
Dissertation for his doctorate in Letters |
| 1895 | Cur ars picturae apud Italos XVI saeculi deciderit | Latin-language thesis on the decline in Italian oil painting in the course of the sixteenth century |
| 1897 | Saint-Louis | |
| 1897 | Aërt | Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1898 | Les Loups (The Wolves) |
Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1899 | Le Triomphe de la raison (The Triumph of Reason) |
Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1899 | Georges Danton | Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1900 | Le Poison idéaliste | |
| 1901 | Les Fêtes de Beethoven à Mayence | |
| 1902 | Le Quatorze Juillet (July 14–Bastille Day) |
Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1902 | François-Millet | |
| 1903 | Vie de Beethoven (Life of Beethoven) |
Biography |
| 1903 | Le temps viendra | |
| 1903 | Le Théâtre du peuple (People's Theater) |
Seminal essay in the democratization of theatre. L'Académie française, or the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Georges Jacques Danton ( October 26, 1759 &ndash April 5, 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. |
| 1904 | La Montespan | Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1904 - 1912 | Jean-Christophe | Cycle of ten volumes divided into three series–Jean-Christophe, Jean-Christophe à Paris, and la Fin du voyage, published by Cahiers de la Quinzaine |
| 1904 | L'Aube | First volume of the series Jean-Christophe |
| 1904 | Le Matin (Morning) |
Second volume of the series Jean-Christophe |
| 1904 | L'Adolescent (The Adolescent) |
Third volume of the series Jean-Christophe |
| 1905 | La Révolte (The Revolt) |
Fourth volume of the series Jean-Christophe |
| 1907 | Vie de Michel-Ange (Life of Michelangelo) |
Biography |
| 1908 | Musiciens d'aujourd'hui (Contemporary Musicians) |
Collection of articles and essays about music |
| 1908 | Musiciens d'autrefois (Musicians of the Past) |
Collection of articles and essays about music |
| 1908 | La Foire sur la place | First volume of the series Jean-Christophe à Paris |
| 1908 | Antoinette | Second volume of the series Jean-Christophe à Paris |
| 1908 | Dans la maison (At Home) |
Third volume of the series Jean-Christophe à Paris |
| 1910 | Haendel | |
| 1910 | Les Amies (Friends) |
First volume of the series la Fin du voyage |
| 1911 | La Vie de Tolstoï (Life of Tolstoy) |
Biography |
| 1911 | Le Buisson ardent | Second volume of the series la Fin du voyage |
| 1912 | La Nouvelle Journée | Third volume of the series la Fin du voyage |
| 1912 | L'Humble Vie héroïque (The Humble Life of the Hero) |
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| 1915 | Au-dessus de la mêlée (Above the Battle) |
Pacifist manifesto |
| 1915 | Received the Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| 1917 | Salut à la révolution russe (Salute to the Russian Revolution) |
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| 1918 | Pour l'internationale de l'Esprit (For the International of the Spirit) |
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| 1918 | L'Âge de la haine (The Age of Hatred) |
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| 1919 | Colas Breugnon | Burgundian story |
| 1919 | Les Précurseurs (The Precursors) |
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| 1920 | Founded the review Europe | |
| 1920 | Clérambault | |
| 1920 | Pierre et Luce | |
| 1921 | Pages choisies (Selected Pages) |
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| 1921 | La Révolte des machines (The Revolt of the Machines) |
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| 1922-1933 | L'Âme enchantée (The Enchanted Soul) |
Seven volumes |
| 1922 | Annette et Sylvie | First volume of l'Âme enchantée |
| 1922 | Les Vaincus | |
| 1924 | L'Été (Summer) |
Second volume of l'Âme enchantée |
| 1924 | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| 1925 | Le Jeu de l'amour et de la mort (The Game of Love and Death) |
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| 1926 | Pâques fleuries | |
| 1927 | Mère et fils (Mother and Child) |
Third volume of l'Âme enchantée |
| 1928 | Léonides | |
| 1928 | De l'Héroïque à l'Appassionata (From the Heroic to the Passionate) |
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| 1929 | Essai sur la mystique de l'action (A study of the Mystique of Action) |
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| 1929 | L'Inde vivante (Living India) |
Essays |
| 1929 | Vie de Ramakrishna (Life of Ramakrishna) |
Essays |
| 1930 | Vie de Vivekananda (Life of Vivekananda) |
Essays |
| 1930 | L'Évangile universel | Essays |
| 1930 | Goethe et Beethoven | Essay |
| 1933 | L'Annonciatrice | |
| 1935 | Quinze Ans de combat | |
| 1936 | Compagnons de route | |
| 1937 | Le Chant de la Résurrection (Song of the Resurrection) |
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| 1938 | Les Pages immortelles de Rousseau (The Immortal Pages of Rousseau) |
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| 1939 | Robespierre | Historical/philosophical drama |
| 1942 | Le Voyage intérieur (The Interior Voyage) |
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| 1943 | La Cathédrale interrompue (The Interrupted Cathedral) |
Volumes I and II |
| 1945 | Péguy | Posthumous publication |
| 1945 | La Cathédrale interrompue | Volume III, posthumous |