==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Jules Michelet: My book is a book of peace ==== Jules MicheletPriest, Woman and Family This vile war, the most loathsome in history, appears the more horrible by the almost total absence of free inspiration and spontaneous impulse. It was, from […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Henry Céard: He affected warlike sentiments ==== Henry CéardUne belle journéeTranslated by Ernest Boyd In the illustrated papers she saw the latest coronation, the dirty linen washed in the latest lawsuit, all the events of Paris and the world….Pictures which […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Henry CéardUne belle journéeTranslated by Ernest Boyd As an ex-corporal of militia he felt himself almost a real soldier because he had once tried to get promotion into the territorial army. Although it was established beyond a doubt that, […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Fortuné du BoisgobeyLe Tambour de Montmirail At present the escort was riding over a small plain where the artillery wheels had deeply rutted the soil. This was the only trace of the passage of the vanguard, and this field, […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Hippolyte Taine on the inhuman travesty of war ==== Hippolyte TaineThe Philosophy of ArtTranslated by John Durand This military organization common to all the cities of antiquity at length had its effect,- a sad effect. War being the natural condition […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war Ernst Toller: Corpses In The Woods ==== Ernst TollerTo the Trench Through shell-holes,puddles of mud,they trudge.Over frozenmen in foxholesthey stumble. Rats dart whistling across the distances.Dead fingers rain down& tap on rotting doors.Signal-rockets,corpse-lanterns… To the ditch, to the ditch.
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Léon GozlanThe Emotions of Polydore Marasquin I perceived two mandrills of the most savage kind on guard, sword in hand, near me, imitating, so far as parody imitates truth, the gait and stiffness of English soldiers. Through want of […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Emile FaguetPacifism Jesus did not announce the advent of universal peace; but he gave the true means of achieving this if men were unanimous in adopting it, by his three essential words: “Peace be with you. – Love each […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Jules LemaîtreThe KingsTranslated by Ernest Tristan and G.F. Monkshood …this old world is too weighed down with memories, too involved in traditions of violence, authority and useless legislation. It bends beneath exorbitant charges, and the waste of human effort […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Paul and Victor Margueritte: Selections on war ==== Paul and Victor MargueritteThe DisasterTranslated by Frederic Lees There was a deafening crash, the great plaintive whistling of the shell, the bursting in all directions in the midst of a group of […]
