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Maurice Sachs (1906 - April 14, 1945)
Apr. 14th, 2012 01:05 pm
Maurice Sachs (born Maurice Ettinghausen, 1906, Paris - 14 April 1945, Germany) was a French writer. He was the son of a Jewish family of jewelers.Sachs was educated in an English-style boarding-school, lived for a year in London and worked in a bookshop, and returned to Paris.
In 1925 he converted to Catholicism and decided to become a priest, though this didn't last upon meeting a young man on the beach at Juan-les-Pins.
After involvement in a number of dubious business activities, he traveled to New York, where he passed himself off as an art dealer. Returning to Paris, he associated himself with leading homosexual writers of the time - Cocteau, Gide and Max Jacob - with all of whom he had stormy relationships whose precise nature is unclear. At various times he worked for Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, in both cases stealing from them.
Sachs was mobilized at the start of World War II, but was discharged for sexual misconduct. During the early years of the Occupation, he made money out of helping Jewish families escape to the Unoccupied Zone. He may also have been an informer for the Gestapo. He was later imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel.
One story of Sachs' death is that he was lynched by other prisoners and his body was thrown to the dogs.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sachs
( Further Readings )
This is a charming novella, about two very ordinary guys, a classic boy meets boy, boy falls for boy story. Shawn is a salesman for a fragrance company and he had to start from the bottom, i.e. working a stand in a department store; with a business degree, maybe that is not the realization of his dreams, but Shawn is facing it with a good predisposition. More than the job, maybe he is worried about his love life; even if young and handsome, Shawn is very shy and he has trouble to meet guys. Actually sometime, he meets them, but his shyness makes him aloof, and the other guy thinks he is giving the cold shoulder.