Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Blaise Cendrars
Born: September 1, 1887
Died: January 21, 1961 (aged 73)
Bio: Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Known for:
- Moravagine: (*) (1926)
- La Main coupée (1946)
- To the end of the world
- Anthologie Negre (1947)