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All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

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Georges Bernanos
Age: 60 †
Born: 1888
Born: February 20
Died: 1948
Died: July 5
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9th arrondissement
Paris
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