[←737 ]
TN: Séverin Faust (29th December, 1872–23rd April, 1945), widely known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic.
[←738 ]
TN: Pictorial Madness.
[←739 ]
TN: Carnac (Breton: Karnag) is a commune located beside the Gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany, in the Morbihan department of north-western France. It is famous for its ‘Carnac stones’, which rank among the most extensive Neolithic menhir collections in the world.
[←740 ]
TN: Baalbek is a city in the Anti-Lebanon foothills, east of the Litani River in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley; its Temple of Bacchus is famous all over the world.
[←741 ]
TN: Tiwanaku (Spanish: Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia.
[←742 ]
TN: Fátima is a civil parish in the municipality of Ourém, in the Portuguese Santarém District, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary appeared on numerous occasions in 1917.
[←743 ]
TN: Mysteries of the Universe.
[←744 ]
TN: The Wonders of Easter Island.
[←745 ]
TN: The Presence of the Future.
[←746 ]
TN: Paths of the Impossible.
[←747 ]
TN: Black Guides.
[←748 ]
TN: Fantastic Realism.
[←749 ]
TN: Mysterious Adventures.
[←750 ]
TN: Dawn of the Magicians.
[←751 ]
TN: A comic book character.
[←752 ]
TN: From the Adventures of Tintin.
[←753 ]
TN: The Book of Tradition.
[←754 ]
TN: The Secret Treasure of Ishrael.
[←755 ]
TN: Ancient Provence.
[←756 ]
TN: The Enigma of the Black Virgins.
[←757 ]
TN: The Nibelungs.
[←758 ]
TN: The Odyssey’s Secret Code.
[←759 ]
TN: The Origins of Egypt.
[←760 ]
TN: Knowledge of the Megaliths.
[←761 ]
TN: The Gothic Mystery.
[←762 ]
TN: Jesus, or the Deadly Secrets of the Knights Templar.
[←763 ]
TN: The Secret Life of Paul.
[←764 ]
TN: Nero was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His name is often mentioned in connection to Rome’s burning.
[←765 ]
TN: Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Magician or Simon the Sorcerer, is a religious figure whose confrontation with Peter is recorded in Acts 8:9–24. The act of simony, or paying for position and influence in the church, is named after him.
[←766 ]
TN: Louis Charpentier (1905–1979) was a French journalist, author, editor and traveler.
[←767 ]
TN: The Giants and the Mystery of Our Origins.
[←768 ]
TN: Mysteries of the Chartres Cathedral.
[←769 ]
TN: The Black Book of Flying Saucers.
[←770 ]
TN: The UFO files.
[←771 ]
TN: Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau (7th April, 1909–24th June, 1978). He was a French author known for his writings on the ancient astronaut theme.
[←772 ]
TN: The One-Hundred-Thousand -year-old Unknown History of Man.
[←773 ]
TN: The Book of the Mysterious Unknown.
[←774 ]
TN: The Enigma of the Great Pyramid.
[←775 ]
TN: Return to the Stars.
[←776 ]
TN: The Archives of Lost Knowledge.
[←777 ]
TN: A French novelist.
[←778 ]
TN: A famous collection of French historical manuals dating back to the first half of 20th century and used in schools and educational establishments.
[←779 ]
TN: Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is a Swiss author of several books which make claims about extra-terrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968.
[←780 ]
TN: Eternal Man.
[←781 ]
TN: Chronicles of Lost Civilisations.
[←782 ]
TN: Durrant’s real name is Didier Serres.
[←783 ]
TN: The Bizarre Phenomena of Space.
[←784 ]
TN: Mysterious Flying Saucers.
[←785 ]
TN: Insight into Flying Saucers.
[←786 ]
TN: Mysterious Celestial Objects.
[←787 ]
TN: The Strangers.
[←788 ]
TN: God of Religion, God of Science.
[←789 ]
TN: The Philosophy of Values.
[←790 ]
TN: ‘Freedom of Spirit.
[←791 ]
TN: Eulogy of the Consumerist Society.
[←792 ]
TN: Edgar Degas (19th July, 1834–27th September, 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance. He is also considered to be one of the founders of Impressionism, a fact which he himself rejected, regarding himself as a realist.
[←793 ]
TN: Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is a highly popular tourist site.
[←794 ]
TN: Philippe Sollers was born Philippe Joyaux on 28th November, 1936, in Bordeaux, France). He is a French writer and a critic.
[←795 ]
TN: Taizé is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. The author seems to be alluding to the ‘Taizé Community’, which is an ecumenical Christian monastic community.
[←796 ]
TN: Annis Xenakis was a Romanian-born, Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, and engineer.
[←797 ]
TN: Paul Klee was a Swiss German artist whose uniquely individual style was influenced by art movements including Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
[←798 ]
TN: Baudelaire’s masterpiece.
[←799 ]
TN: This seems to be a reference to Erasmus Darwin’s ‘Loves of the Plants’.
[←800 ]
TN: Jean Baechler, born on the 28th of March, 1937 in Thionville (Moselle), is a French sociologist, a professor of Historical Sociology at the Sorbonne, and a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
[←801 ]
TN: Ideological Nuisances.
[←802 ]
TN: What Is Ideology?
[←803 ]
TN: Ancient Christianity.
[←804 ]
TN: The City Whose Prince Is but a Child.
[←805 ]
TN: Eve of the Conqueror.
[←806 ]
TN: Jacques Bergier (1912–1978) was a chemical engineer, a member of the French-resistance, a spy, a journalist and a writer. He also co-wrote the best-seller The Morning of the Magicians with Louis Pauwels.
[←807 ]
TN: Revolutionary spontaneity.
[←808 ]
TN: Those that defend barricades during street clashes.
[←809 ]
TN: A neologism that refers to the death of logic.
[←810 ]
TN: In Latin, it is specifically the word ‘sinister’ that refers to the Left.
[←811 ]
TN: André Breton (18t
h February, 1896–28th September, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is most renowned for being the founder of Surrealism.
[←812 ]
TN: An ancient Greek word meaning ‘presence’, ‘arrival’, or ‘official visit’.
[←813 ]
TN: This may not have been the wisest choice of words, since in Greek mythology, Cassandra or Kassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy who was cursed to utter prophecies which were true but which no one believed.
[←814 ]
TN: Herbert George Wells (21st September, 1866–13th August, 1946), widely referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres and authored dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary and satire. He also contributed to the biographical and autobiographical sphere.
[←815 ]
TN: Long live death!
[←816 ]
TN: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29th May, 1874–14th June, 1936), simply known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English author, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian and biographer, in addition to being a literary and art critic. He is often referred to as the ‘prince of paradox’.
[←817 ]
TN: Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23rd June, 1910–3rd October, 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Even though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is most famous for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical drama, which was regarded as an attack on Marshal Pétain’s Vichy government.
[←818 ]
TN: Marcus Aurelius (26th April, 121 CE–17th March, 180 CE) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and it is his untitled writing, commonly known as Meditations, that has served as a crucial source of our modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy. It is, in fact, considered by many experts to be one of the greatest philosophical works.
[←819 ]
TN: Notebooks.
[←820 ]
TN: An Open Letter to Happy People.
[←821 ]
TN: Paul Sérant is the pen name of Paul Salleron (19th March, 1922–2nd October, 2002), a French journalist and author.
[←822 ]
TN: A Letter to Louis Pauwels on Troubled People that Have Every Right to Be So.
[←823 ]
TN: La Parisienne was a monthly literary magazine published in Paris from 1953 to 1958; it should not be confused with the women’s magazine bearing the same name.
[←824 ]
TN: Mr Gurdjieff.
[←825 ]
TN: René Guénon (1886–1951) was a French metaphysician, author and editor who played a crucial role in laying the metaphysical foundations for the Traditionalist or Perennialist school of thought in the early twentieth century. He later converted to Islam.
[←826 ]
TN: Ritual Murder.
[←827 ]
TN: Morning of the Magicians.
[←828 ]
TN: Where Is the Right Heading To?
[←829 ]
TN: Fascist Romanticism.
[←830 ]
TN: Those Vanquished by the Liberation.
[←831 ]
TN: The French Minorities.
[←832 ]
TN: Brittany and France.
[←833 ]
TN: A Day in the Country, released in 1946, ten years after its incomplete filming.
[←834 ]
TN: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson.
[←835 ]
TN: Meetings with Remarkable Men.
[←836 ]
TN: A French language monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine published in Paris since 1829.
[←837 ]
TN: What I Believe In, a collection of literary essays launched in Paris back in 1953.
[←838 ]
TN: A Question Of.
[←839 ]
TN: Plotinus (204–270 CE) was a major Greek-speaking philosopher of the ancient world whose philosophy was rooted in three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul.
[←840 ]
TN: ‘Odin’s Rune Song’ is a section of the Hávamál, where Odin describes his sacrifice of himself to himself. The approximate translation is: ‘I know that I hung on a windy tree, nine long nights, wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin, myself to myself, on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run’.
[←841 ]
TN: Paul-Yves Nizan (7th February, 1905–23rd May, 1940) was a French novelist, philosopher and journalist.
[←842 ]
TN: Blumroch the Admirable, or What the Superman Dines On.
[←843 ]
TN: The Works of Meister Eckhart — Sermons and Treatises.
[←844 ]
TN: Meister Eckhart and the Rhineland’s Mysticism.
[←845 ]
TN: Wandering Joy: Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Philosophy.
[←846 ]
TN: Robert Poulet (4th September, 1893–6th October, 1989) was a Belgian author, literary critic and journalist.
[←847 ]
TN: The idolisation of children.
[←848 ]
TN: Against Love.
[←849 ]
TN: Against Youth.
[←850 ]
TN: Against Plebes.
[←851 ]
TN: A French publisher of Belgian origin, Robert Denoël was born on 9th November, 1902. He was murdered on 2nd December, 1945, in Paris.
[←852 ]
TN: Rivarol is a French nationalist weekly magazine.
[←853 ]
TN: Le Spectacle du Monde was a French language magazine. It was published in France between 1962 and 2014.
[←854 ]
TN: Although ‘love with a capital H’ is sometimes used when referring to a mixture of Love and ‘Hatred’, this seems to be a reference to the kind of love that contains a certain dose of ‘Happiness’.
[←855 ]
TN: Gustave Flaubert (12th December, 1821–8th May, 1880) was a very influential French novelist. He is often considered a pivotal figure in the field of French literary realism.
[←856 ]
TN: The Sorrows of Young Werther is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, originally published in 1774.
[←857 ]
TN: Euripides (c. 480–c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived in significant numbers.
[←858 ]
TN: Jean Racine, or Jean-Baptiste Racine (22nd December, 1639–21st April, 1699), was a French dramatist and is regarded as one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Most of his plays were tragedies.
[←859 ]
TN: Francesco Petrarca (20th July, 1304–19th July, 1374), commonly anglicised as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy and one of the first humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero’s letters is often believed to have initiated 14th-century Renaissance.
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