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Propaganda of this man next to Potez 540 bombers during the Spanish Civil War backfired due to the plane’s nickname of “Flying Coffin.” In Operation Northwind, this man led a brigade that defended Strasbourg and was named for Alsace-Lorraine. He wasn’t a head of state, but a four-year-old girl was blinded by a failed 1962 bombing targeting this man by the OAS. Inspired by T. E. Lawrence’s excavation of Carchemish (“CAR-keh-mish”), this man was jailed for removing a bas-relief from the Banteay (10[1])Srei (“bon-tay s’rye”) temple (10[1])while on vacation in Indochina with his wife Clara. This man’s namesake law prevented the demolition of original Parisian buildings and was passed while he was the first (10[1])Minister of Cultural (10[2])Affairs under Charles de Gaulle. (10[2]-5[1])The Conquerors and The Royal Way form part of a trilogy (10[1])by (-5[1])this man, along (10[1])with a novel in which Ch’en Ta Erh (10[2]-5[1])dies during an attempted assassination of Chiang Kai-Shek. (10[2])For 10 points, name this French author who described communist intrigue in Shanghai in Man’s (-5[1])Fate. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: André Malraux [or Georges André Malraux; accept Malraux Law; accept Malraux Brigade or Brigade Malraux]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2075%0%20%127.13

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Walter ZhangBrown ACornell B8010
Ashish SubramanianDuke AFlorida B8210
Halle FriedmanNYU AMinnesota B11010
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AStanford A11310
Tracy MirkinFlorida AYale B11310
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BClaremont A118-5
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech APenn State A11810
Caleb KendrickMaryland ARutgers A11810
Cormac BeirneMcGill AYale A12910
Clark SmithOhio State AColumbia A130-5
Charles HangWUSTL AColumbia B13310
Michael MaysImperial AVirginia A141-5
Mitch McCullarIllinois AChicago C14110
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AChicago B14110
Ricky LiMIT AMichigan A14910
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ASouth Carolina A14910
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BWUSTL B164-5
Mazin OmerHarvard AMinnesota A16510
Kevin ParkClaremont AGeorgia Tech B1660
Vishal KanigicherlaPenn AHouston A1660
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AOhio State A16610
Jisoo YooTexas ARutgers B1660