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- François Mauriac espoused Jansenism, a movement within Catholicism asserting that an individual’s fate was predestined by God and focused on original sin and the mystery of God’s grace.
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François Charles Mauriac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).
Jul 6, 2016 · The Austrian-born Fleischner, a Holocaust scholar and pioneer of relations between Catholics and Jews, reflected on Wiesel’s relationship with the eminent French Catholic writer François...
Life. François Mauriac espoused Jansenism, a movement within Catholicism asserting that an individual’s fate was predestined by God and focused on original sin and the mystery of God’s grace.
May 18, 2018 · The French author François Mauriac (1885-1970), a fervent Catholic, is best known for his novels, usually set in Bordeaux or the Landes district of southwestern France, with their central themes of faith, sin, and divine grace.
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François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux in 1885. His father, a banker, died two years later and the family went to live with Mauriac’s maternal grandmother. He planned to go to the Ecole des Chartes. He failed the first exam but passed six months later but gave up the idea to devote himself to literature after his first book of poetry was published. ...
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François Mauriac (1885–1970), French author and journalist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life.”.
Sep 1, 2009 · François Mauriac belonged to the long tradition of French Roman Catholic writers, who examined the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world.
