Simone Weil : Would-Be Martyr to the Free French Cause

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2006

Author

Adams, Geoffrey

Book

Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews and Protestants in de Gaulle's Free France 1940-1945

Series Volume

46

Pages

183-197

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Place Published

Montreal

Language

English

Chapter

11

Series Title

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion

Keywords

roots (uprootedness)
war

Annotation

After giving a brief overview of Weil’s life, Adams moves on to an interesting, detailed examination of Weil’s relation to the Free French movement and the writing she did both for, and in response to, the movement in the final years before her death in 1943.