André Malraux

...times to church status and back, its necropolis houses the remains of Voltaire and Louis Pasteur, as well as the writers Victor Hugo, Andre Malraux, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. The chemist and physicist Marie Curie, and Sophie...

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...plan follows a tradition of honouring the nation's heros. Jacques Chirac, his predecessor, had the remains of Alexandre Dumas and Andre Malraux, a war hero and post-war writer, shifted to the Left Bank edifice which houses Voltaire, Rousseau,...

In this article: Albert Camus, Paris, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Le Monde, and Louis Braille

...of placing its heroes in ther Parisian monument. Jacques Chirac, Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, had the remains of Alexandre Dumas and Andre Malraux, the Gaullist hero and writer, moved to the Republic's secular temple, which houses Voltaire,...

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...is big enough to accommodate all sorts of tastes now, even if it's safe to say this is the first time a quote from French author Andre Malraux ever has been projected onto the stage of the MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre. And the recession...

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...has died. News reports said that he died Oct. 30 of cardiac arrest at his home in Paris. Along with writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Malraux, Mr. Levi-Strauss was considered one of the towering French intellectuals of the last century. He...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Roman Jakobson, Philippe Descola, Tristes Tropiques, Paris, and World War II

...dealing with war as experienced intimately, achieved a more humane and universal reading of the Spanish conflict than other writers (Andre Malraux, George Orwell) who dwelt on its political and military dimensions. He taught sociology,...

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...over the weekend in Paris. He was 100. No cause of death was reported. Levi-Strauss was often paired with writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Malraux as the towering French intellectuals of the past 100 years. He said that his life's work was...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Tristes Tropiques, Richard Shweder, University of Chicago, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Brussels

...to influential theories examining human behavior and culture Mr. Levi-Strauss was often paired with writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Malraux as the towering French intellectuals of the last century. He said his life's work was "an attempt...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Le Monde, and Jean-Paul Sartre

...a literary annus mirabilis, which saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Andre Malraux' La Condition Humaine, Stephen King's Christine, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Raymond...

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...synergy, saying that Malraux in many respects became Jackie's most important cultural mentor: "She listened to him and wrote to him. Malraux was her prize. " Upon the Kennedys' return to the U.S., various official invitations were...

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