biography
pronunciation:
[bayroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1958)
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| biography:
| Polemicist, journalist, and novelist, born in Lyon, SC France. The son of a baker, he began in journalism in 1903, served in World War 1, then exercised his characteristic humour in L'Oeuvre, Le Canard Enchaîné, and Le Crapouillot. Other works include L'Héritage des Symbolistes (1906) and La Gerbe d'or (1928), and he collaborated on Gringoire (1934). In 1922 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Le Martyre de l'Obose. Arrested and condemned to death at the liberation of France, he was pardoned by Géneral de Gaulle, after the intervention of Churchill and Mauriac. Imprisoned in the penitentiary of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, he was freed due to ill health in 1950. He began publishing work again, including Les Derniers beaux jours (1953). |
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