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Maurice Druon [1918-2009] French
Rank: 108
Novelist


Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" between 1985 and 1999.

Poetry, Society



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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. Society
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I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
102
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. Poetry
103
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.
104
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.
105
The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.
106
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
107

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