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“A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.”

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Francois Mauriac
Francois Mauriac

French author born on October 11, 1885, and died on September 1, 1970. Francois Mauriac is known for his profound religious and moral themes and is considered an important figure in 20th-century French literature. more

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