Michel Bernanos was the second of seven children of Georges Bernanos, author of Diary of a Country Priest and A Diary of My Times. As a young man Michel served in the Free French Naval Forces and soon

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after World War II he moved to Brazil. He returned to France upon his father's death in 1948 and began writing, first magazine, articles, then thrillers and a novel of adventure. But this posthumous book, published in Trance under the title La Mon-

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tagne Morte de la Vie, was the first work to which he signed his real name. Michel Bernanos was barely forty at the time of his death in 1964.

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