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Jean Giraudoux |
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29th October 1882 |
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Bellac, France |
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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French dramatist who wrote internationally acclaimed plays.
He was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France.
Giraudoux was also a prose writer and served France as a diplomat and government official. In his youth he traveled abroad, visiting Germany, Italy, the Balkans, Canada, and the United States, where he spent a year (1906-07) as an instructor at Harvard University.
Returning to France, he served in World War I, was twice wounded, and became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honor. A meeting with Louis Jouvet, in 1928, stimulated his writing.
At the start of World War II he served as Minister of Information under Premier Edouard Daladier.
He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy, Paris, France.
Works
- Comedies
- Amphitrion 38- see Amphitrion
- Apollo of Bellac
- Dramas
- The Trojan war will not take place
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- Ondine
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