" ... En tete de cette legion heroique, donnons la premiere place au fort et pur Beethoven. Lui-meme souhaitait, au milieu de ses souffrances, que son exemple put etre un soutien pour les autres miserables, et que le malheureux se consolat en trouvant un malheureux comme lui, qui, malgre tous les obstacles de la nature, avait fait tout ce qui etait en son pouvoir, pour devenir un homme digne de ce nom . Parvenu par des annees de luttes et d'efforts surhumains a vaincre sa peine et a accomplir sa tache, qui etait, comme il disait, de souffler un peu de courage a la pauvre humanite, ce...

Romain Rolland (1866 -1944 ) war ein franzosischer Schriftsteller, Musikkritiker und Pazifist. Er wurde 1915 mit dem Nobelpreis fur Literatur ausgezeichnet. Der Erste Weltkrieg uberraschte Rolland in der Schweiz. Besturzt sah er in ihm einen Untergang Europas. Er entschloss sich, in der Schweiz zu bleiben, wo er unzensiert publizieren konnte. Er engagierte sich vom Oktober 1914 bis Juli 1915 als Freiwilliger bei der Internationalen Zentralstelle fur Kriegsgefangene des Internationalen Komitees vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK) in Genf. Daneben veroffentlichte er im Journal de Geneve die kriegskritische...

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Jean Christophe In Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House

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