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Article: Facing history: Mauriac and Levinas on Nazism. (Francois Mauriac and Emmanuel Levinas)
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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The singular development of Mauriac's career during the Nazi occupation of France has been widely recognized:[1] after penning, at the height of France's debacle in 1940, two pieces ('La Verite' and 'La France en cellule', both published in the Figaro, on 19 June and 3 July, respectively) which contained laudatory references to Petain embarassingly similar to some of the terms used in his post-Liberation eulogy of De Gaulle, he quickly regained his composure. Mauriac terminated for all practical purposes his editorial activity in occupied France in early August 1940 (in addition to several literary pieces, moreover loaded with ideological 'contraband', in the Figaro ...