state show a high level of nuance and rigor. In 1931 he became a French citizen and was awarded the Légion d'honneur. In 1939, shortly after retiring from his diplomatic post and ill with cancer, he died of a heart attack in a house he had recently purchased in Fontainebleau. He is buried in the cemetery at Fontainebleau. Every year, around the time of his birthday on May 28, a group of admirers, Les Amis de Milosz, commemorate his life and work in a ceremony at the grave site. Works Milosz was largely neglected during his lifetime. He has increasingly, however, come to be considered an important figure in French poetry. In a 1926 letter to James Chouvet, he writes: "... [my] studies have taught me the only thing they could. Namely, that the truth is one, and that some respect and love are enough to discover it in the depths of our consciousness." As well as being a writer of great erudition and breadth, Milosz edited three books of Lithuanian folk tales and songs. Some of his works in French: 1899: Le Poème des Décadences (poetry) 1906: Les Sept Solitudes (poetry) 1910: L'Amoureuse Initiation (novel) 1911: Les Éléments (poetry) 1913: Miguel Mañara. Mystère en six tableaux. (play) 1914 Les Zborowski (novel, first published in 1982) 1915: Poèmes 1917: Épitre à Storge (first part of Ars Magna) 1918: Adramandoni (six poems) 1919: Méphisobeth (play) 1922: La Confession de Lemuel 1924: Ars Magna (poetry-philosophy) 1926–1927: Les Arcanes (poetry-philosophy) 1930: Contes et Fabliaux de la vieille Lithuanie (translation of folk tales) 1932: Origines ibériques du peuple juif (essay) 1933: Contes lithuaniens de ma Mère l'Oye (translation of folk tales) 1936: Les Origines de la nation lithuanienne (essay) 1938: La Clef de l'Apocalypse Works translated into English: Collection of 26 Lithuanian songs (1928) Lithuanian Tales and Stories (1930) Lithuanian Tales (1933) The Origins of the Lithuanian Nation in which he tried to persuade the reader that Lithuanians have the same origin as Jews from the Iberian Peninsula (1937) The Fourteen Poems of O.V. De L. Milosz, translated by Kenneth Rexroth with illustrations by Edward Hagedorn (1952) The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of Oskar Milosz, ed. Christopher Bamford (Lindisfarne Press) (1985) Poems of Milosz, translated by David Gascoyne (Enitharmon Pamphlets, 1993); reprinted in Selected Verse Translations, David Gascoyne (Enitharmon Press, 1996) Miguel Manara, with Commentary by Luigi Giussani", translated by Edo Morlin-Visconti