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Yourcenar

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Yourcenar [ˈjʊkənɑː]
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(Biographies / Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-1987) F, French, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: writer) Marguerite, original name Marguerite de Crayencour. 1903- 87, French novelist and writer, in the US from 1939; noted for her historical novels, esp Mémoires d'Hadrien (1952)


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French writer Marguerite Yourcenar says this: "Compassion emphasizes the experience of suffering with those who suffer and it is far from according a sentimental conception of life.
Pallenberg is adapting the Memoirs of Hadrian by French writer Marguerite Yourcenar, a bestselling and critical success when it was published in 1951.
Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Saul Bellow, Frank O'Hara, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth.
 
 
 
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