Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)