French writers on war and peace
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
French and other French-language writers on war and peace
Louis Aragon: Selections on war
Louis Aragon: Caravans of Peace
Louis Aragon: Children scattering flowers will some day scatter deadly flowers, grenades
Louis Aragon: The military: parasite and defender of parasitism
Louis Aragon: The peace that forces murder down to its knees for confession
Louis Aragon: War and its gloomy procession of storm clouds, sacred rites, illusions and lies
Louis Aragon: War, signal for the coming massacre of the sacrificial herd
Marcel Aymé: A child’s view of war
Marcel Aymé: Novel way to end a war
Balzac: Mass executions: Has Europe ever ceased from wars?
Jules Barbey D’Aurevilly: The jackals of war
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
Henri Barbusse: All battles spring from themselves and necessitate each other to infinity
Henri Barbussse: As long as the colors of uniforms cover the flesh of men
Henri Barbusse: The awful power of a dead man
Henri Barbusse: Blood-stained priest of the God of War
Henri Barbusse: Butchery as far as the eye can see
Henri Barbusse: Crows eddying round naked flesh with flapping banners and war-cries
Henri Barbusse: The enemy is militarism and no other
Henri Barbusse: Flags and swords, instruments of the cult of human sacrifice
Henri Barbusse: The goddess of slaughter, the world worn out by war
Henri Barbusse: I will wage war, even though I alone may survive
Henri Barbusse: Jesus on the battlefield
Henri Barbusse: Manual laborers of war glutting the cannon’s mouth with their flesh
Henri Barbusse: The mournful hearse of the army razes harshly
Henri Barbusse: Murder enters as invisibly as death itself. Industry multiplies its magic.
Henri Barbusse: The only cause of war is the slavery of those whose flesh wages it
Henri Barbusse: “Perhaps it is the last war of all”
Henri Barbusse: Sepulchral sculptor’s great sketch-model, the gate of hell
Henri Barbusse: Soldier’s glory is a lie, like every other fine-looking thing in war
Henri Barbusse: “That’s war. It’s not anything else.”
Henri Barbusse: There will be nothing else on the earth but preparation for war
Henri Barbusse: These murdered souls, covered with black veils; they are you and I
Henri Barbusse: Torture…agony…human sacrifices…
Henri Barbusse: War, as hideous morally as physically
Henri Barbusse: War befouls the country as it does faces and hearts
Henri Barbusse: “War must be killed; war itself”
Henri Barbusse: War which breeds war, whether by victory or defeat
Henri Barbusse: War’s loathsome horror and lunacy
Henri Barbusse: “We must have a new Ministry: a new public opinion: War.”
Henri Barbusse: The world has come to the end of its strength: it is vanquished by wars
Henri Barbusse: “You understand, I’m against all wars”
Pierre Bayle: The God of fratricide is a lunatic invention
Pierre Bayle: Men of blood not permitted to build temples
Francis Bebey: They all come into the world speaking the same language of peace and friendship
Julien Benda: Military mysticism
Pierre-Jean de Béranger: The Holy Alliance of Peace
Pierre-Jean de Béranger: When from the miseries of war we wake…
Georges Bernanos: War, the penalty of rendering unto Caesar what is no longer his
Georges Bernanos: Wars like epidemics, with neither beginning nor end
Pierre Boulle: The long reach of war profiteers
Henri Bosco: Man kills just for the sake of killing
Albert Camus: Where war lives. The reign of beasts has begun.
François-René de Chateaubriand: What is war? A barbaric profession.
Chateaubriand: Would-be master of the world who knew only how to destroy
Victor Cherbuliez and Erich Fromm: Wars are outbursts of destructiveness and paranoid suspicion
Jules Claretie: A sensible man can but have one opinion on the question of war and peace
Jean-Paul Clébert: Concrete monsters. Had war devastated everything and there was no one left alive?
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac: Peace will not make good all the evils war has caused
Nicolas de Condorcet: War can never benefit the majority of individuals of a nation
Nicolas de Condorcet: War, the most dreadful of all calamities, the most terrible of all crimes
François Coppée: God preserve us from scientific war, the worst of any
Michel Corday: Selections from The Paris Front
Michel Corday: Blood! Blood! But there is still not enough.
Michel Corday: The everlasting glorification of murder
Michel Corday: War, the most brutal heritage of the past
Michel Corday: In war fathers bury their sons
Michel Corday: War sentiment is general dementia, barbarous and neolithic
Michel Corday: Millions of men killed to cure a single hypochondriac
Michel Corday: War – hell let loose, butchery, a return to barbarism
Michel Corday: War is irreparable loss for the earth and the human race
Michel Corday: The hideous futility of war in itself
Michel Corday: Future description of these horrors ought to make any return of war impossible
Michel Corday: Striking against war
Michel Corday: The Truth is the chief victim of war
Michel Corday: Glorification of slaughter is the beginning of future armaments
Michel Corday: The plague that comes in war’s train
James Darmesteter: War and prophecy
Alphonse Daudet: Revenge and war
Antoine Destutt de Tracy: War leads to despotism, despotism to war
Denis Diderot: War is contest between beast and savage
Maurice Druon: A contempt for all things military
Maurice Druon: The dual prerogatives of minting coins and waging wars
Maurice Druon: Why I exhort you not to threaten each other with your armaments
Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas: Breaking oaths of peace, cover the fields with bloody carcasses
Maxime Du Camp: Gautier, war filled him with horror
Georges Duhamel: Selections on war
Georges Duhamel: The demon of war had imprisoned us under his knee
Georges Duhamel: The Fleshmongers, War’s Winnowing Basket
Georges Duhamel: Mosaic of pain stained with mud and blood, the colours of war
Georges Duhamel: No end to war without moral reeducation
Georges Duhamel: No man desires war…but if there’s money to be made…
Georges Duhamel: The possession of the world is not decided by guns. It is the noble work of peace.
Georges Duhamel: The stupid machine of war throws out, from minute to minute, bleeding men
Georges Duhamel: The Third Symphony, a slender bridge across the abyss
Georges Duhamel: War and civilization
Georges Duhamel: Who has taught children of man that war brings happiness?
Georges Duhamel: World where now there are more graveyards than villages
Maurice Duplay: Colloquy on science and war
Maurice Duplay: Imperative to uproot the passion of war
Marguerite Duras: The civilizing mission
Jean Dutourd: The horrors of war
Paul Éluard: True law of men despite the misery and war
Erckmann-Chatrian: In a century the war gods will be recognized as barbarians
Erckmann-Chatrian: In war belligerents conspire against their own citizens
Henri Fauconnier: A chance encounter on the evening of a day of slaughter
Fénelon: War is the most dreadful of all evils by which heaven has afflicted man
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle: Planet blessed with love but decimated by war
Paul Fort: The Complaint of the Soldiers
Charles Fourier: If ever war was deplorable, it is at this moment
Anatole France: Selections on war
Anatole France: Attack the monster that devours our race; make war on war, a war to the death
Anatole France: Barracks are a hideous invention of modern times
Anatole France: Country living under shadow of war is easy to govern
Anatole France: Education and War
Anatole France: Emerging painfully from primitive barbarism, war
Anatole France: The ethics of war
Anatole France: Even war depends on the arts of peace
Anatole France: Financiers only wanted colonial wars and the people did not want any wars at all
Anatole France: “He left us impoverished and depopulated, but he gave us glory”
Anatole France: How the U.S. Congress deliberates on wars
Anatole France: In civilised nations the glory of massacre is the greatest glory known
Anatole France: Letter to an advocate of “peace with victory”
Anatole France: Military service the most terrible pest of civilised nations
Anatole France: Modern Romans, the Americanization of the world
Anatole France: Moved by the spectacle of the miseries and crimes of war
Anatole France: No one has right to kill, just man will refuse to draw his number for war
Anatole France: Nobel Prize speech
Anatole France: Only two ways out of militarism – war and bankruptcy
Anatole France: Restoring order by means of theft, rape, pillage, murder and incendiarism
Anatole France: They prefer war to work, they would rather kill each other than help each other
Anatole France: To avert the danger of peace breaking out…
Anatole France: The tutelary gods of world war
Anatole France: Wait till the warriors you make gods of swallow you all up
Anatole France: War, burlesque masquerade in which fatuous patriots sing stupid dithyrambs
Anatole France: War debases man beneath the level of ferocious beasts
Anatole France: War is the last redoubt of oligarchy, plutocracy
Anatole France: Wars fought over territorial acquisition, commercial rivalries
Anatole France: War ruins all trades but its own
Anatole France: Whether civil or foreign, war is execrable
Anatole France: Why should not humanity abolish the law of murder?
Anatole France on Victor Hugo: People to substitute justice and peace for war and bloodshed
Anatole France on Émile Zola, military terrorism and world peace
Anatole France and Michel Corday: The press fans the flames of war’s blast furnace
Anatole France and Michel Corday: Threat of annihilation in gigantic Armageddon
Anatole France and Michel Corday: War is a crime, for which victory brings no atonement
Théophile Gautier: One could imagine oneself in the Golden Age of Peace
André Gide: Transformation of a war supporter
Jean Giono: Led to the slaughterhouse
Jean Giono: Rats and worms were the only living things
Jean Giono: War, nourishment and dismemberment
Jean Giono: War! Who’s the madman in charge of all this? Who’s the madman who gives the orders?
Édouard Glissant: The planet is riddled with wars
Edmond de Goncourt: Despite civilization, brute force asserts itself as in the time of Attila
Edmond de Goncourt: Even more horrible than the wounds of battle
Edmond de Goncourt: Scenes of siege amid the horrors of war
Remy de Gourmont: Getting drunk at the dirty cask of militarism
Remy de Gourmont: If they wage war, in what state must the world be?
Albert-Paul Granier: The deadweight cortege of death grinds past
José-Maria de Heredia: Drunk with dreams that brutal conquests bring
Victor Hugo: Selections on war
Victor Hugo: The black eagle waits with claws outspread
Victor Hugo: Brute war, dire birth of hellish race
Victor Hugo: Common-sense opposition to war
Victor Hugo: The face of Cain, hunters of men, sublime cutthroats
Victor Hugo: From fratricide to fraternity
Victor Hugo: Glorious war does not exist; peace, that sublime, universal desire
Victor Hugo: The history of war and the history of peace
Victor Hugo: The inkstand is to destroy the sword
Victor Hugo: International Peace Congress 1851
Victor Hugo: Peace will supersede war, perhaps sooner than people think
Victor Hugo: The poet outlives the man of war
Victor Hugo: War, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity
Victor Hugo: What greater aim could there be than civilization through peace?
Joris-Karl Huysmans: An Apocalypse of wars
Jules Janin: War aborts orators and writers, bears soldiers
Jules Janin: War needs blood and gold
Joseph Joubert on war: All victors will be defeated
Joseph Kessel: In my family, war is in the blood…the blood of others
Joseph Kessel: The monstrous ululation of an air-raid siren
Joseph Kessel: War’s ultimate fratricide, killed for not killing
Jean de La Bruyère: And self-slaughtering man dares call animals brutes
La Bruyère on the lust for war
La Fontaine: When shall Peace pack up these bloody darts?
Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Wars are the plague of the human race
La Rochefoucauld: The petty causes of great wars
José-André Lacour: War’s sanguinary peacock
Jacques de Lacretelle: War’s atavistic brigands
Alphonse de Lamartine: Mercenaries, taking others’ lives for hire
Lamartine: The republic of peace
J.M.G. Le Clézio: This is what war is
Marie Lenéru: War is not human fate
Gaston Leroux: Poet and soldier
Alain-René Lesage: A military braggart and his opposite
Pierre Loti: Burying poor young soldiers all guiltless of the mad adventure
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray: What is called the grand art of war
Maurice Maeterlinck: Bloodshed, battle-cry and sword-thrust are the joys of barbarians
Joseph de Maistre: The soldier and the executioner
Nicolas Malebranch: Ignorance, brutality and training for war
André Malraux: Do you think that the army budget is meant to pay for war?
André Pieyre de Mandiargues: Mercy and Peace squares
Gabriel Marcel: Modern war is sin itself, the suicide of the human race
Gabriel Marcel: War depersonalizes enemy, dehumanizes self
Gabriel Marcel: War is disaster from which no counterbalancing advantage can be reaped
Jacques Maritain: What good one can expect from such a war and its pitiless prolongation?
Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war
Roger Martin du Gard: From Nobel Prize in Literature speech
Roger Martin du Gard: All the pageantry of war cannot redeem its beastliness
Roger Martin du Gard: “Anything rather than the madness, the horrors of a war!”
Roger Martin du Gard: Be loyal to yourselves, reject war
Roger Martin du Gard: Deliberately infecting a country with war neurosis
Roger Martin du Gard: “Drop your rifles. Revolt!”
Roger Martin du Gard: General strike for peace
Roger Martin du Gard: A hundredth part of energy expended in war could have preserved peace
Roger Martin du Gard: How make active war on war?
Roger Martin du Gard: Nothing worse than war and all it involves
Roger Martin du Gard: Romain Rolland
Roger Martin du Gard: A thousand times more honor in preserving peace than waging war
Roger Martin du Gard: Tragedy of war, like that of Oedipus, occurs because warnings are ignored
Roger Martin du Gard: War breeds atmosphere of lies, officials lies
Roger Martin du Gard: War’s “serviceable lie” costs tens of thousands of lives
Guy de Maupassant: Selections on war
Guy de Maupassant: The Horrible
Guy de Maupassant: How and why wars are plotted
Guy de Maupassant: I only pray that our sons may never see any wars again
Guy de Maupassant: Military hysteria, military presumptuousness
Guy de Maupassant: Why does society not rise up bodily in rebellion at the word “war”?
Francois Mauriac: The Bloody Dawn of Peace
André Maurois: The killing machine started up with pitiless smoothness
Albert Memmi: So the war had caught up with us, a celebration in honor of death
Prosper Mérimée: Commemorating the heroes of war
Prosper Mérimée: To the shame of humanity, horrors of war have their charm
Robert Merle: The present war, and all the previous wars, and all the wars to come
Robert Merle: There’s no such thing as a just or sacred war
Jules Michelet: My book is a book of peace
Octave Mirbeau: Selections on war
Octave Mirbeau: To the Soldiers of all Countries
Octave Mirbeau: War, apprenticeship in man-killing
Montaigne: Blood on the sword: From slaughter of animals to slaughter of men
Montaigne: The ignominy of lopsided military conquest
Montaigne: Invasion concerns all men; not so defense: that concerns only the rich
Montaigne: It is enough to dip our pens in ink without dipping them in blood
Montaigne: Monstrous war waged for frivolous reasons
Montaigne: This furious monster war
Montaigne: War, that malady of mankind
Montesquieu: Distemper of militarism brings nothing but public ruin
Montesquieu: Military glory leads to torrents of blood overspreading the earth
Montesquieu: Wars abroad aggravate conflicts at home
Henry de Montherlant: A constant state of crime against humanity
Paul Morand: The magic disappearance of ten millions of war dead
Paul Morand: Nations never lay down their arms; death which is still combative
Paul Morand: The War for Righteousness ends in the burying of moral sense
Paul Morand: You did not believe in the war
Marcel Moreau: Children playing at war, the actual weapon of a crime
Charles Morice: Woe to you enemies of peace
Alfred de Musset: “No, none of these things, but simply peace.”
Pierre Nicole: Peacemakers warrant highest title men are capable of
Pierre Nicole: Scripture obliges us to seek and desire the peace of the whole world
Roger Nimier: Selections on war
Roger Nimier: I saw war in its stark reality
Roger Nimier: Soldiers are like that
Roger Nimier: Thankful for divine justice: a horrible wound rewarded me for all the harm I had done
Roger Nimier: Those who fall in love with war will surely die in her arms
Paul Nizan: War completely assembled, like a mighty engine
Charles Nodier: Fruitless is the glory of battles
Charles Nodier: Painful to the eyes and the heart of he who cherishes liberty
Georges Ohnet: Pillaging in the wake of victorious armies
Zoé Oldenbourg: War provides a feast for the vultures
Charles d’Orléans: Pray for Peace
Pascal on war: An assassin if he kills in his own country, a hero if in another
Charles Péguy: Cursed be war, cursed of God
Benjamin Péret: Little song for the maimed
Vladimir Pozner: Mars and Ceres
Marcel Proust: Every day war is declared anew
François Rabelais: Born for peace, not war
François Rabelais: The magnanimity of peace
François Rabelais: Strictures against war
François Rabelais: Waging war in good earnest
C.F. Ramuz: Little by little the war spreads
Ernest Renan: No military path to the kingdom of God
Jules Renard: Almost succeed in making you accept the butcheries of war
Jean Renoir: War’s solemn human sacrifice
Clément Richer: The impatience of dead generals
Emmanuel Roblès: Respect is first due to the living
Emmanuel Roblès: The war has changed my soul
Romain Rolland: Selections on war
Romain Rolland: A father’s plea against war
Romain Rolland: The abominable war crimes of intellectuals
Romain Rolland: Above The Battle
Romain Rolland: America and the war against war
Romain Rolland: Ara Pacis and Ave, Caesar, Morituri Te Salutant
Romain Rolland: Centuries to recreate what war destroys in a day
Romain Rolland: Chorus of war’s secular high priests and intellectual carpet knights
Romain Rolland: Civilized warfare allows victims choice of how to be slaughtered
Romain Rolland: The collective insanity, the terrible spirit of war
Romain Rolland: Content with having said “No!” to war
Romain Rolland: The enormous iniquity, the ignoble calculations of war
Romain Rolland: The equivocating sages of Armed Peace
Romain Rolland: Gandhi and the Satanic nature of war
Romain Rolland: Gandhi vs Einstein: War must be stopped before it starts
Romain Rolland: Hatred and holy butchery; the deadly sophistry, carnivorous poetry of war
Romain Rolland: He loathed brutal militarism
Romain Rolland: The heroism of war resisters
Romain Rolland: The intellectual drunkeness of war propaganda
Romain Rolland on Henri Barbusse: The isolated bleating of one of the beasts about to die
Romain Rolland: Letter to Gandhi on confronting age of global wars
Romain Rolland: Letter to Gandhi on total inadmissibility of war
Romain Rolland: Letters on conscientious objection
Rolland Rolland: Letters to Tagore on peace
Romain Rolland: The life that would have been, the life that was not going to be
Romain Rolland: A little idealism to make the war booty more delectable
Romain Rolland: Message to America on the will to conquer the world
Romain Rolland: Mobilization of all the forces in the world for peace
Romain Rolland: Oh, fair diplomats, you rid us of irksome peace
Romain Rolland: Our Neighbor the Enemy
Romain Rolland: Pacifism only allowed when it is not effective
Romain Rolland: Peace and war are in the hands of those who hold the purse-strings
Romain Rolland: Real peace demands that the masters of war be eliminated
Romain Rolland: Reawakening of old instincts of national pride, lapping of blood
Romain Rolland: Recurrence of the hell of war
Romain Rolland: To Gandhi on mental unbalance leading whole world to destruction
Romain Rolland: To the Murdered Peoples
Romain Rolland: To the undying Antigone; waging war against war
Romain Rolland: Tolstoy and peace among men
Romain Rolland: Totalizing, to their personal profit, the ruin of all nations
Romain Rolland: Tragedy of scientists at the disposal of military powers
Romain Rolland: War, a divine monster; half-beast, half-god
Romain Rolland: War, a pathological fact, a plague of the soul
Romain Rolland: War and the factories of intellectual munitions and cannon
Romain Rolland: War enriches a few, and ruins the community
Romain Rolland: The way to peace is not through weakness
Romain Rolland: When we defend war, dare to admit we are defending slavery
Romain Rolland: Where to rebuild the world after war?
Romain Rolland: Youth delivered up to the sword of war
Jules Romains: Selections on war
Jules Romains: Colloquy on God and war
Jules Romains: Communion of saints opposing war’s mutual massacre, human sacrifice
Jules Romains: Condign punishment for war profiteers and professional patriots
Jules Romains: Dawning of new century shot with sinister streaks of war
Jules Romains: Deadening effects of war on human sensibilities, defeat of civilization by barbarism
Jules Romains: Destruction of war itself, its deletion from the pages of history
Jules Romains: Even the very word was new: war
Jules Romains: Fraternization versus fratricide, the forbidden subject of peace
Jules Romains: If mankind could put two and two together, there’d be no more war
Jules Romains: Just kill because the more dead there are, the fewer living will remain
Jules Romains: Living under the curse of war since childhood
Jules Romains: Romantic view of war played a dirty trick on the warriors
Jules Romains: Squalidly degrading everything that the civilization of mankind had created
Jules Romains: Unnatural war will only stop when everybody, on both sides, is killed
Jules Romains: War means a golden age for the munitions makers
Jules Romains: War: symphony of death, vast pudding concocted of corpses
Jules Romains: War turns murder into a public and highly praiseworthy action
Jules Romains: War under modern conditions has need of everything that man produces
Ronsard: Far away from Europe and far from its wars
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on peace and war
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The advantages of peace
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: No nobler, more beautiful scheme than lasting peace
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: No such thing as a successful war
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The scheme of founding a lasting peace is the most lofty ever conceived
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: War and despotism reinforce each other
Claude Roy: Great wars and those which kill just as effectively
Gabrielle Roy: This was the hope that was uplifting mankind once again: to do away with war
Saint-Exupéry: Charred flesh of children viewed with indifference
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: War has tricked us
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Théophile Gautier, lover of peace
George Sand: Trader in uniformed flesh and the religion of self
Jean-Paul Sartre: They lift their heads and look up at the sky, the poisonous sky
Jean-Paul Sartre: When staging a massacre, all soldiers look alike
Jean-Paul Sartre: When the rich fight the rich, it is the poor who die
Étienne Pivert de Senancour: Lottery of war amid heaps of the dead
Étienne Pivert de Senancour: War, state-sanctioned suicide
Madame de Staël: Voting for war, pronouncing their own death sentence
Stendhal: Decorating it with the name of glory
Stendhal: Dreaming of the Marshall and his glory…
Stendhal: You’ve got to learn the business before you can become a soldier
Stendhal and Byron: Military leprosy; fronts of brass and feet of clay
Eugène Sue: War, murder by proxy
Hippolyte Taine on the inhuman travesty of war
Henri Troyat: Selections on war
Henri Troyat: All humanity passing through a crisis of destructive madness
Henri Troyat: I prefer to die, so that I no longer have to see the others die
Henri Troyat: Nothing grand, nothing noble, in the universal slaughter
Henri Troyat: Shedding blood for the motherland: War is ugly and absurd
Henri Troyat: So many men killed, so many towns burned…for a telegram
Henri Troyat: Thoughts stop with a shock: War!
Henri Troyat: Tolstoy’s visceral detestation of war
Henri Troyat: War, that greatest of political crimes
Henri Troyat: War, war, war! Oh, why?
Henri Troyat: “Will a day ever come when there’s no more war, no more lies, no more tragedy!”
Paul Vaillant-Couturier: The Song of Craonne
Paul Valéry on global conflicts, Europe governed by American commission
Paul Valèry: War, science, art and Leibnitz, who dreamed of universal peace
Jules Vallès: I hate war and its sinister glory
Vauvenargues: If we could discover the secret of banishing war forever
Roger Vercel: Boats built for men to live in, ships built to kill
Vercors: Are war crimes only committed by the vanquished?
Émile Verhaeren: I hold war in execration; ashamed to be butchers of their fellows
Paul Verlaine: The joy of sweet peace without victory
Alfred de Vigny: Selections on war
Alfred de Vigny: Admiration for military commander turns us into slaves and madmen
Alfred de Vigny: The army is a machine wound up to kill
Alfred de Vigny: It is war that is wrong, not we
Alfred de Vigny: War is condemned of God and even of man who holds it in secret horror
Alfred de Vigny: When armies and war exist no more
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam: Vox Populi
Voltaire: Annals with no mention of any war undertaken at any time
Voltaire: Armies composed of well disciplined hirelings who determine the fate of nations
Voltaire: Bellicose father or pacific son?
Voltaire: He did not put a sufficient number of his fellow creatures to death
Voltaire: Invoking the gods of war
Voltaire: The laws of robbers and war
Voltaire: Mortals, you’re bound by sacred tie, therefore those cruel arms lay by
Voltaire: Must Europe never cease to be in arms?
Voltaire: One country cannot conquer without making misery for another
Voltaire: Why prefer a war to the happy labors of peace?
Marguerite Yourcenar: Fruits of war are food for new wars
Émile Zola: Encomiums on labor and peace
Émile Zola: The forge of peace and the pit of war
Émile Zola: Haunted by military matters
Émile Zola: The military, necessary apprenticeship for devastation and massacre
Émile Zola: One sole city of peace and truth and justice
Émile Zola: Prescription for a happy life in the midst of universal peace
Émile Zola: Vulcan in service to Mars
Émile Zola: War’s vast slaughterhouse