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François Maspero

in Paris, France

For the author of works on radiocarbon dating and materials science, see Francesco Màspero.

François Maspero est un écrivain et traducteur français né le 19 janvier 1932 à Paris XVIe et mort le 12 avril 2015 à Paris XIe1. Il a également été éditeur (Éditions Maspero), libraire et directeur de revues.

See also:
Gaston Maspero
Georges Maspero (1872–1942), French sinologist
Henri Maspero (1883–1945), French sinologist
Jean Maspero (1885–1915), French papyrologist

For the author of works on radiocarbon dating and materials science, see Francesco Màspero.

François Maspero est un écrivain et traducteur français né le 19 janvier 1932 à Paris XVIe et mort le 12 avril 2015 à Paris XIe1. Il a également été éditeur (Éditions Maspero), libraire et directeur de revues.

See also:
Gaston Maspero
Georges Maspero (1872–1942), French sinologist
Henri Maspero (1883–1945), French sinologist
Jean Maspero (1885–1915), French papyrologist

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“Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.”
― Francois Maspero, Cat's Grin

“The faces you clutch at desperately slip away; it's when you're not thinking about them that their features flash past. It can happen on a street corner, at the turn of a staircase, because somebody said a word, because some image, an image has passed. Then the face is there for a split second, very fragile. One mustn't grasp at it, or it whisks away. One might as well try and catch a cloud. It was a cloud.”
― Francois Maspero, Cat's Grin

“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.”
― Francois Maspero, Cat's Grin

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