Say “Claudel” and you might think of Camille Claudel, Rodin’s mistress and the subject of the 1988 movie Camille Claudel. But Paul Claudel (1868–1955), her younger brother, is considered one of the ...

Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often ...

THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PAUL CLAUDEL AND ANDRÉ GIDE (299 pp.)—Pantheon ($4). At the turn of the century, Paul Claudel and André Gide were beginning literary careers, Claudel as poet-playwright, ...

The few Berliners who have dabbled seriously in modern French literature welcomed with a pleasure tempered by surprise the appointment of M. Paul Claudel as French Ambassador to Germany. Is not M.

There was no way that this silence of all the centuries before me would continue.There was no way any longer to say that this interrogated earth was silent.