When, in 1960, Saint-John Perse, the great poet of the century - at least read Anabasis and Exile - that Under His real name, Alexis Leger, was among the highest political and austere of France - 'arm' of Aristide Briand, Édouard Daladier accompanied to the infamous Monaco Conference of 1938, and was the only way to turn bad words, and almost in handfuls, Adolf Hitler - went to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize for literature said a disconcerting truth.