Mauriac

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��·ç�Ǿ�� [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1885–1970, French novelist: Nobel Prize 1952.

Mauriac

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Mauriac��ç�Ǿ��18851970MFrenchWRITING: novelist ��ç�Ǿ�� (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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Still, Maurice de Mauriac, a niche producer which makes about 300 watches per year, has so far got round the supply problems.

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Her mother was the daughter of ��ç�Ǿ�� Mauriac, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952.

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

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Twentieth-century French literary maven ��ç�Ǿ�� Mauriac once observed, “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

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��ç�Ǿ�� Mauriac, the French-Catholic writer who had championed “Night,” had provided us the words.

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