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theater is good, but nothing is progressing in this respect. The Germans fight very
well. – This week, René Weil came with his aunt; he is bad,
tells you that he had to hide because he unmasked a rival trafficker
in his capacity as an associate of the Deuxième Bureau. I don’t believe a
word of it. He shows his different identity cards and has the morals of a
forger and cheater. What was not cheated was the goose brought
by his aunt and prepared by Marthe for Saturday; for once, we
ate our fill genuinely and enjoyably. Robert Lévy and his wife have a low
opinion of this man, who comes to hide perhaps in [geo] Nice [/geo]
and leaves his three children with his wife in [geo] Marseille [/geo] at his parents’ place.
On the other hand, one does not clearly see the stability of the marriage between Robert Lévy
and Blanche. –
J. Lucas-Dubreton, Louis-Philippe, Paris, Fayard, 1938

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Friday, [February] 12 [1943]. We continually discuss in our groups, which form and reform
without changing much, whether we have to get our identity cards
and food ration cards stamped. I find this ridiculous. When one is named Dreyfus,
that says it all, and one has [strikethrough] to do [/strikethrough] to live with it. Yesterday evening, Mr. Delbost loaned me
Georgette Leblanc, Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck, 1895-1918, with an introduction by
Grasset, Paris, 1931.
It is [about] her love for Maeter­linck.

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already made roundtrips between faith and doubt.
The essential mark of our civilization is to have reduced human effort
to a minimum, to have substituted a system of convenience, and
thus to have relieved our physical and mental structure of the need
to adapt and of the constant play of our activity which
results from it, for the greater good of this activity. Human beings have
warmly welcomed modern civilization, which fostered
sliding on this slippery slope. They have willingly abandoned the fields
for the towns and the factories, adopted the mode of life of the new era,
and acquired the habits of never being alone, of being part of large
crowds, of never
thinking, of receiving ready-made ideas from their newspaper, their radio,
and promotional slogans.
Firmin Roz, in the Revue des Deux Mondes on February 1, [19]43, “De Bossuet à Carrel. –
La science de l’homme et la révolution nationale,” quoted from Carrel’s L’Homme,
cet inconnu, p. 104: “A woman is profoundly different from a man. Each
cell of her body carries the mark of her sex. It is the same
for her organ systems and above all for her nervous system.
The laws of physiology are as inexorable as the laws of the stars.
It is impossible to substitute human desires for them. Women must
develop their aptitudes in the direction of their own nature, without
seeking to imitate males. Their role in the progress of civilization is
higher than that of men. They must not abandon it.”
– They