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Rolland, Romain
By Josepha Laroche
Romain Rolland ()
This press portrait shows the French writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Romain Rolland in
Agence Meurisse: Romain Rolland, romancier, black-and-white photograph, France, ; source: Gallica, Bibliothèque national de France, Meurisse , ://btv1bx.
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Rolland, Romain
French pacifist writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
Born 29 January in Clamecy, France
Died 30 December in Vézelay, France
Summary
A pacifist writer, Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in During the Great War, he refused to choose one camp over the other and suffered nationalist attacks. In the post war years, he developed closer ties to the Parti communiste français (PCF), the French Communist Party. But with the German occupation of France during the Second World War, he took refuge in silence.Introduction
Romain Rolland () was a French pacifist writer who was worl
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The Forerunners
PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to säga in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section fryst vatten interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written to
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Romain Rolland
French author (–)
Romain Rolland (French:[ʁɔmɛ̃ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January – 30 December ) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in "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".[1]
He was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, wrote a still relevant biography of Gandhi, and is also noted for his correspondence with numerous writers and thinkers across the globe including Maxim Gorki, Rabindranath Tagore and Sigmund Freud.
Biography
[edit]Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre into a family that had both wealthy townspeople and farmers in its lineage. Writing introspectively in his Voyage intérieur (), he sees himself as a representative of an "antique species". He would cast these ancestors in Colas Breugnon ().
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