Destiny, Two Women, and a Carriage
French biographer and novelist, ANDRE MAUROISserved as liaison officer with the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War and as a captain in the French Army during World War II until the full of France. Later, when the Allied forces landed in North Africa, he joined the French colonial army under General Giraud. M. Maurois was elected to the French Academy in 1938 and is well known for his biographies of Disraeli, Byron, Dickens, and Shelley. His latest book, Lélia, a life of George Sand, was published by Harper last fall and was considered by many to be his best work. In the essay which follows he describes for Atlantic readers what he regards as the turning point in the life of Goethe.