biography
pronunciation:
[gut]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–97)
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| biography:
| Humorist, born in Ossun, S France. He gave up teaching French to become a literary critic for the radio and the press, notably for Le Figaro. He became a successful novelist with Les Mémoires d'un Naif which earned him the Prix Courteline, and began a largely autobiographical series to which would be added the female equivalent with ‘Jeanne-la-Mince’. A lyric writer, the ‘Frères Jacques’ interpreted, for example, Le Dernier Piéton. He denounced slovenliness in his social satire Lettres Ouvertes aux futurs Illéttrés (1980). |
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