Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux was born in Bellac, in Haute-Vienne, on 29 October 1882. A student at the École normale supérieure and enamoured of German culture, he studied in Munich and then stayed at Harvard in 1907. Admitted by the Foreign Affairs competitive examination in 1910, he made a career in diplomacy. Wounded twice during the war of 1914, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour. From 1928, he worked for the stage with the actor and director Louis Jouvet. Appointed Commissioner General for Information in 1939, he died in Paris on 31 January 1944.

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• TheatreThe Trojan War Will Not Take PlaceLa guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieuJean Giraudoux · 1935Literature