About Gontran de Poncins
Jean-Pierre Gontran de Montaigne, vicomte de Poncins, known as Gontran De Poncins, was a French writer and adventurer. Although Poncins was French, the text was first published in the United States in English in 1941; the French edition followed six years later. What he discovered there, he believed, was a nobler way of life and, perhaps, a means of saving a fallen Western world.
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