biography
pronunciation:
[boorday]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1945)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, NC France. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and military Légion d'Honneur, and at one time worked as London correspondent for L'Echo de Paris. His first plays, Rubicon (1910) and L'Homme enchaîné (1923) were not successful, but he established his reputation with La Prisonnière (1926), a psychological study of the sufferings of a sexually maladjusted woman. Other notable plays include Le Sexe faible (1929) and Les Temps difficiles (1934). He served as director of the Comédie Française (1936–40), and in 1938 fought a duel with playwright Henri Bernstein. Bourdet died at the end of the war, not knowing that his son, Claude (b.1909), taken by the Gestapo, was still alive. Claude became a political journalist for Combat and France-Observateur. |
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