biography
pronunciation:
[b&etilde; zhamĩ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1948)
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| biography:
| French novelist, essayist, and critic. He worked first as a journalist on Gil Blas and Les Echos de Paris, and in 1915 won the Prix Goncourt with Gaspard, written in the hospital where he was taken after being wounded in World War 1. After some essays on the novel and the theatre, he turned to the study of behaviour in Le Palais et ses gens de justice (1923). He wrote again for the stage, Il faut que chacun soit à sa place (played in the Vieux Colombier in 1924), and produced critical biographies of Barrès, Joffre, and Balzac, and others. He made the most of his satirical inspiration in Aliboron and Les Démagogues (1927). Having supported the Vichy régime, he was dismissed from the Goncourt jury in 1945. |
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