biography
pronunciation:
[marh(g)uhreet]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1942)
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| biography:
| French novelist and columnist, born in Blida, N Algeria. He resigned from the Dragoons in 1895 to devote himself to literature, and worked with his brother, also a novelist, from 1896 to 1908 producing Poum, Le Désastre (on the 1870 war), La Commune, and others. Then he put his own name to various novels including Prostituée (1907), La Garçonne (1922), whose freedom provoked an outcry against female emancipation, followed by Ton Corps est à toi (1927). His essays, such as Pour mieux vivre (1914), conveyed his internationalist opinions. He was one of the first members of the Académie Goncourt. |
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