Clérambault

Name: Clérambault
Author: Romain Rolland

A French poet breaks with the war fever of his nation to follow his conscience, and pays the price of standing alone.

Books mentioned in Clérambault (3)

De la Constance et Consolation ès Calamités Publiques by Guillaume du Vair: “Guillaume Du Vair wrote his noble Dialogues, 'De la Constance et Consolation ès Calamités Publiques,' with a steadfast mind.”
Le Contr'Un by Étienne de La Boétie: “This somewhat ironical name was suggested--with a difference--by La Boëtie's Le Contr' Un.”
De Viris Illustribus by Charles François Lhomond: “the reverence they had for the great slogans of the past: ... 'Plutarch,' 'De Viris,' 'Horace.'”