Maurice Druon

Maurice Druon , born the April 23rd 1918 with Paris, is a writer French.

He is the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he wrote the Chant of the partisans who, on a music composed by Anna Marly, will be used as anthem with the movements of the Résistance during the Second world war.

Biography

He passes to his childhood to Cross-Saint-Leufroy, in Normandy, or he becomes acquainted with Pierre Thureau-Dangin, wire of the perpetual secretary of the Academy Paul Thureau-Dangin. He makes his secondary studies with the Lycée Michelet of Vanves. Prize winner of the open Competition in 1936, it starts to publish, at the eighteen years age, in the reviews and literary journals while being raises with Faculty of Arts of Paris then at the Private school of political sciences (1937-1939).

Raise officer of cavalry to the École of Saumur in 1940, it takes part in the Campagne of France. After its demobilization, it remains in free zone, and made there represent its first part, Mégarée . It engages in the Résistance and leaves France in 1942, clandestinely crosses Spain and Portugal to join in London the rows of the free French Forces. It becomes the aide-de-camp of the general François d' Astier of Vigerie, then attached to the station “Honor and Fatherland” before being operations manager for the police station inside and to the Information and correspondent war near the French Armies in 1944 until the end of the hostilities.

As from 1946, it is devoted to its literary career, receives the Prix Goncourt (1948) for its novel the Big families and various prestigious prices for the whole of its work. December 8th 1966, it is elected with the French Academy with the armchair of Georges Duhamel. It reaches the celebrity with her saga historical arts person, the cursed Kings , adapted in 1973 on television. Maurice Druon forever hidden that its series “the cursed Kings” had been the result of a work of workshop. With the number of the collaborators whom he thanks in his foreword, one raises the names of Gilbert Sigaux, José-Andre Lacour and Edmonde Charles-Roux among some negros of less scale.

It takes part in the commission of reform of ORTF.

Historical Gaullist, it remains during all these years engaged politically. Its nomination like Minister for the cultural Affairs in 1973, and its declarations threatening the subversive theater directors to cut the subsidies to them, cause a polemic. It incarnates a preserving culture, in rupture with the opening and the modernization insufflated by Jacques Duhamel. May 13rd, 1973, a funeral procession symbolizing the death of freedom of expression thus gathers, on the initiative of several directors, of which ARIANE Mnouchkine, Jean-Pierre Vincent and Bernard Sobel, several thousands of demonstrators. It is not renewed in 1974, then is elected appointed of Paris of 1978 with 1981. It occupies various diplomatic or political stations like member of the Council Franco-British or representing at the parliamentary Assemblies of the the Council of Europe and the Western European Union.

Perpetual secretary starting from 1985, it chooses in 1999 to give up this function, yielding the place to Helene Carrère d' Encausse. Like academician, it intervenes regularly on the evolution, which it wishes very slow, of the French language vis-a-vis the company, particularly hostile on the feminization of the words. In 2006, its critic of “picturesque” French of the Inhabitants of Quebec, compared with very sure language the “, very pure, very exact” tallied in France at the 17th century was worth several critics in Quebec to him.

He is also member of several academies, like that of Bordeaux, of Athens, the Académie of the kingdom of Morocco and the Rumanian Académie. He is also in favor of the rebuilding of the Palais of Tileries. He also collaborates as chronicler in the Figaro , gathering his writing several works of which the Good French (1996-1999) and Outspokenness (2001-2002).

Distinctions

Grand Cross of the Legion of honor
Commander of Arts and the Letters
Médaille of free France
Knight Commander of British Worsens (K.B.E.)
Grand officer of the Merit of the sovereign order of Malta
Dignitaire or holder of the Orders of the following countries: Argentinian, Belgium, Brazil, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Mexico, Monaco, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, Tunisia
Honorary doctor of the university York (Toronto), of Boston University (the United States) and of the university of Tirana (Albania)
Price Goncourt ( the Big families, 1948)
Literary prize of the Foundation Prince Pierre of Monaco (for the whole of its work, 1966)
Prix Saint-Simon ( Circumstances , 1998)
Prix Clutched of Aubigné ( the Good French , 2000)

Works

Mégarée (1942), play
the Bell ringer of good outward journey (1943), new
Song of the partisans , with Joseph Kessel (1943)
Letters of an European and New letters of an European (1943 - 1970), tests
the Last Brigade (1946), Romance
the Big families (1948 - 1951), novel in three volumes, Price Goncourt 1948
a traveller (1953), comedy
the Death-blow (1953), melodrama, with Joseph Kessel
Pleasure to be (1954), Romance
the cursed Kings (1955 - 1977), Historical novel in seven volumes
Tistou the green inches (1957), Romance youth
Alexandre Large the (1958), mythological novel
Of the lords of the plain to the hotel of Clean (1962), news
Memories of Zeus (1963 - 1967), mythological novel in two volumes
Paris, of César with saint Louis (1964), historical test
Bernard Buffet (1964), test
the Capacity (1965)
the Happiness of the ones (1967), new
Future in distress (1968), test
a church which is mistaken in century (1972), test
Word and it To be able (1974), (Plon)
Attention France! (1981), (Stock)
To reform the democracy (1982), (Plon)
Culture and the State (1985), (To want France)
Vézelay, eternal hill, new edition (1987), (Albin Michel)
Letter with the French on their language and their heart (1994), (Julliard)
Circumstances (1997), (the Rock)
political Circumstances (1998)
political Circumstances II (1999)
the Good French (1999), (the Rock)
France with the orders of a corpse (2000), test
Ordinances for a sick State (2002), (Editions of Fallois/du Rock)
Outspokenness (2003), (the Rock)
Memories. The dawn comes from the bottom of the sky (2006), (Plon/Éditions of Fallois)
Memories of Zeus (2007])

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