1989 |In 1989, within the first of 5 applications dedicated to the thinker Simone Weil entitled “Considering, appearing, residing, one momentum”, Maurice Schumann, former spokesperson for Free France and Gustave Thibon, thinker, each near Simone Weil, testified to their assembly together with her.
In 1989, whereas Éditions Gallimard printed his full works, Marie-Christine Navarro devoted 5 applications to the thinker Simone Weil. Within the first of this collection Maurice Schumann (former spokesperson for Free France) and the thinker Gustave Thibon each testified of their assembly with the thinker.
Maurice Schumann:
Simone Weil was a cussed elegant … She was now not of this world when she lived all of the pains of the world. However that has not at all times been the case. When Simone Weil and Simone Pétrement had been good normaliens getting ready for the aggregation, they went canoeing on the lake of Bois de Boulogne, they confided within the emotions that aroused in them younger boys, that they had a coronary heart … They had been going to see collectively 'The Two Orphans', which appeared to them like a ridiculous melodrama, they had been pressured to go away as a result of they had been seized by a laughter! After which, little by little, there was a disembodiment.
Excluded from the College by anti-Semitic legal guidelines, desperate to expertise the agricultural world, Simone Weil was welcomed by Gustave Thibon on his farm within the Ardèche. Gustave Thibon mentioned that it had been the good shock of his life. It was to him that she entrusted her manuscripts in 1942, when she needed to depart for New York, earlier than becoming a member of London to place herself on the service of Free France the place she discovered her pal Maurice Schumann.
Tuberculosis, Simone Weil needed to die a number of months later on the sanatorium in Ashford, or maybe enable himself to die, in keeping with Maurice Schumann, of not having been licensed by London to affix the Internal Resistance, of getting been unable, in on this case, give motion to his thought. In accordance with Maurice Schumann, like her former scholar of the thinker Alain:
Simone Weil by no means accepted the slightest hole between thought and motion.
- By Marie-Christine Navarro
- The paths of information – Simone Weil or metamorphoses: 1st half, Considering, appearing, residing, the identical impetus – 1st diffusion: 07/10/1989
- Internet indexing: Sandrine England, Audio documentation from Radio France
- Ina-Radio France Archive
