French Resistance Fighter

🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

🇮🇪Samuel Beckett

Literature

Nouveau Roman

1906–1989

"Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?"

🇫🇷Simone Weil

Philosophy

1909–1943

"The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege."

🇫🇷Jacques Ellul

Literature

degrowth

1912–1994

"All national rulers, no matter what the nation or the political regime, lord it over their subjects. There can be no political power without tyranny."

🇫🇷Marc Bloch

Education

Annales school

1886–1944

"For in the last analysis it is human consciousness which is the subject matter of history."

🇫🇷Marcel Marceau

Art

1923–2007

"Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

🇫🇷Marc Riboud

Art

1923–2016

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

🇫🇷Henri Lefebvre

Literature

Materialism

1901–1991

"Socialism, when it attempts to predict or imagine the future , provides us merely with an improved form of labor ."

🇫🇷Jean Monnet

Business

1888–1979

"France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture."

🇫🇷René Char

Literature

1907–1988

"I believe in the magic and authority of words."