André Thérive

French writer (1891-1967)

André Thérive (19 June 18914 June 1967, pen name of Roger Puthoste), was a French author, journalist, literary critic and purist defender of the French language.

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  • « En politique, a dit Anatole France, il n'y a pas de traîtres; il n'y a que des perdants. »
    • "In politics, as Anatole France said, there are no traitors; there are only losers."
    • (Source:) Essai sur les trahisons, Calmann-Lévy, 1951, chapter XI De la trahison intérieur (About interior betrayal), p.204.