sentences:  During these years he wrote a number of books, mainly biographies such as those of Lafayette (1932), George Washington (1935), St Francis of Assisi (1962),as well as theological works such as "Christianity in the Market Place" (1943).During the late 1930s, de la Bédoyère's Catholic sympathies encouraged him to support in the pages of his newspaper the Nationalists led by General Franco in the Spanish Civil War.He was strongly anti-communist and believed support for the Nationalist side would hasten peace and be in the interests of Spain.