News of France's writers was trickling out at last. During the Nazi night of occupation most of them had done some work of one kind or another:
¶ Colette (Gabrielle Goudeket), aged hothouse romancer, stayed in Paris, worked in bed as usual, churned out seven books (novels, short stories, impressions). One of them, Le Képi, is a current best-selling novel.
¶ Paul Eluard, tall, elegant Surrealist poet turned Communist, emerged as the principal literary figure of French resistance. Hunted by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre, he...
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