Roger Martin du Gard's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Roger Martin du Gard (French: [ʁɔʒe maʁtɛ̃ dy ɡaʁ]; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature. The birth-card coordinate for March 23 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1937 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1937 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel-cycle <I>Les Thibault</I>

The King of Clubs coordinate

Roger Martin du Gard's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Roger Martin du Gard. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Roger Martin du Gard in the public record

Trained as a paleographer and archivist, he brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for detail, and because of his concern with documentation and the relationship of social reality to individual development, his fiction has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His sympathy for the humanist socialism and pacifism of Jean Jaurès is evident in his work. He is best known for The Thibaults, a multi-volume roman fleuve which follows the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the World War I. Six parts of the novel were published between 1922 and 1929. After abandoning a seventh volume in manuscript, he published two more volumes in 1936 and 1940. Written under the shadow of the darkening international situation in Europe in the 1930s, these last parts, which together are longer than the previous six combined, focus on the political and historical situation leading up to the outbreak of the First World War and bring the story to 1918. Du Gard wrote several other novels, including Jean Barois, which was set against the historical context of the Dreyfus affair. During World War II, he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort) which remained unfinished at his death.

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Roger Martin du Gard (French: [ʁɔʒe maʁtɛ̃ dy ɡaʁ]; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Also on the record

1. It was posthumously published in 1983.
2. His other works include plays and a memoir of André Gide, a longtime friend.
3. Du Gard died in 1958 in Sérigny and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
4. Devenir ! (1908) Jean Barois (1913) (translated into English in 1950) Les Thibault (1922–1940) (translated as The Thibaults and Summer 1914) Confidence africaine (1930) (translated as Confidence Africaine in 1983) Vieille France (1933) (translated as The Postman) Notes sur André Gide (1951) Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort (English: Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort) (1983) Claude Sicard, Roger Martin Du Gard.

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• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
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• 28 more laureates share this card.

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