biography
pronunciation:
[dorzhuhlez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1973)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Amiens, N France. A soldier in World War 1, he became known with Les Croix de Bois (1919), an account of the ravages of the war, which received the Prix Fémina and was later adapted for the cinema. He then led a bohemian life in Montmartre, a facet found in his novels Le Cabaret de la belle femme (1919), Saint-Magloire (1922), and Château des Brouillards (1932). His importance in literary life was also due to his presidency of the Goncourt jury. |
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