Tag: French Novelist

Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar said…

IMG_20190911_151653
Marguerite Yourcenar, or Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour, was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and Erasmus Prize, in 1980 she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française. Her most notable work is historical novel “‎Mémoires d’Hadrien” (Memoirs of Hadrian) and I have read “Denier du Rêve” (retitled A Coin in Nine Hands) set in 1933 over one day in Rome where a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine unusual people https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marguerite-Yourcenar The flower buds are Dianella caerulea (commonly known as the blue flax-lily) which turn into small green then purple berries and it grows in a terracotta pot near my kitchen door. GBW.

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward

Anatole France…

IMG_0086

…the famous French poet, journalist and novelist said “If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”  I guess social media has compounded that figure.

Anatole certainly looks worried about the situation…

Philosophy Anatole France

♥ Gretchen Bernet-Ward