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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.   Bernanos, Georges

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Georges Bernanos (February 20, 1888 July 5, 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to a certain defeatism that led, in his view, to France's defeat in 1940.

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