Editing Simone Weil (section)

=== Marseille ===
After the rise of Nazi Germany, Weil renounced pacifism. She said that, "non-violence is good only if it's effective," and she became committed to fighting the Nazi regime, even if it required force.<ref name=":14" /> After German attacks on France, Weil left Paris with her family and fled to Marseille.<ref name=":12">{{Citation |last1=Rozelle-Stone |first1=A. Rebecca |title=Simone Weil |date=2024 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/simone-weil/ |access-date=2024-08-01 |edition=Summer 2024 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Davis |first2=Benjamin P. |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref> Weil began the risky work of delivering the ''Cahiers du témoignage,'' a [[French Resistance|resistance]] paper. The resistance group of which Weil was part was infiltrated by informants, and Weil was questioned by the police. When the police threatened to jail her “with the whores” if she did not give them information, Weil stated she would welcome the invitation to be jailed.<ref name=thurman/> Weil was ultimately never arrested.{{r|Zaretsky|pp=4&ndash;7,84}} Marseille is also where Weil would soon develop significant religious relationships, receiving spiritual direction from Fr. Joseph-Marie Perrin,<ref name="attente">{{cite book |author=Weil Simone |title=Attente de Dieu |publisher=[[Fayard]] |year=1966}}</ref> a [[Dominican Order|Dominican Friar]].  Weil met the French Catholic author [[Gustave Thibon]], who owned a farm in the Ardéche region where Weil would later work the grape harvest.<ref name=":12" /> Thibon later edited some of her work, helping to draw attention to her spiritually related thought in the English-speaking world.<ref>{{cite web |author=Tony Lynch |title=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |url=https://iep.utm.edu/weil/ |page=Section 2. Writings |quote="Around 1935, and especially after her first mystical experience in 1937, her writings took what many believed to be a new, religious direction. These writings, essays, notebooks, and letters she entrusted to the lay Catholic theologian Gustave Thibon in 1942, when, with her parents, she fled France. With the editorial help of Weil’s spiritual consultant (and sparring partner) Fr. Perrin, selections of these writings first made Weil widely known in the Anglo-American world."}}</ref> Weil encouraged her parents to buy a farm in the [[Ardèche]] where they could sustain themselves and work, but Weil's family thought it safer to plan to move to the United States.<ref name=thurman/>