biography
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Romains, Jules
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pseudonym of Louis Henri Jean Farigoule
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pronunciation:
[romĩ]
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| lived:
| (1885–1972)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, SE France. He studied at Paris, and became a teacher, but established his name with his poems La Vie unanime (1908, The Unanimous Life), and brought about the Unanimist school, devoted to a belief in universal brotherhood and group consciousness. He became a full-time writer from 1919, and remained prominent in French literature, his best-known works being the comedy Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine (1923, Dr Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine) and the cycle of novels, Les Hommes de bonne volonté (27 vols, 1932–46, Men of Good Will), covering the early 20th-c era of French life. |
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