Jean de La Varende (24 May 1887 at the Château de Bonneville in Chamblac, Eure – 8 June 1959) was a French writer. He wrote novels, short stories, biographies...
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Joseph Kessel (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967) and L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows) (by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969). In 1943...
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beautiful oak door." "La promotion de la Légion d'honneur du nouvel an HOMMAGE". La Croix. 2 January 2004. "[LITTÉRATURE] Jean Raspail a 89 ans". Archived...
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Boutang, others writers include: Jean de La Varende, Antoine Blondin, Roger Nimier, Philippe Ariès or Gabriel Matzneff. La Nation française supported Henri...
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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpɛri/, US: /-ɡzuːpeɪˈriː/; French:...
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Michel Tournier (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
Tournier joined Radio France as a journalist and translator and hosted L'heure de la culture française. In 1954 he worked in advertisement for Europe 1. He also...
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Leather-Nose (redirect from Nez-de-Cuir)
Leather-Nose (French: Nez-de-Cuir) is a 1936 novel by the French writer Jean de La Varende, about Achille Perrier de La Genevraye, an officer during the...
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Joël Dicker (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
The book was published the same year. In September 2012, de Fallois published Dicker's La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert (The Truth About the Harry...
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Anne Wiazemsky (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
(1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One...
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Amélie Nothomb (category Grand prix Jean Giono recipients)
Prix Jacques-Chardonne, the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Grand prix Jean Giono (2008), and since 2015 has been a member of the...
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