Michel Déon

Michel Déon was born in Paris on 4 August 1919 and spent part of his youth in Monaco. Enrolled at the law faculty in 1937 and mobilised until 1942, he then worked at L'Action française, alongside Charles Maurras. He lived on the Greek island of Spetsai in the sixties, then settled in Ireland at the end of the decade. He received the Prix Interallié in 1970 and the Académie française's Grand Prix du roman in 1973. Elected to the Académie on 8 June 1978, to the seat of Jean Rostand, he died in Galway on 28 December 2016, aged ninety-seven.

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• NovelThe Foundling BoyLe Jeune Homme vertMichel Déon · 1975Literature