Philip Nord, "Heroes and Martyrs", in After the Deportation - Memory Battles in Postwar France. (Cambridge University Press, 2020). p. 92. 9781108478908. Retrieved 7 July 2021. "Spiritualizing currents coursed through the Latin Quarter world Resnais frequented in the immediate postwar years. He himself had given up on organized religion, but that didn't mean he remained unmarked by the Catholic world he had grown up in. He described himself as a "mystical atheist", the kind of nonbeliever who was spellbound on hearing by chance the radio broadcast of a sermon delivered in accompaniment to morning Mass."
