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Giraudoux Jean - French
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Giraudoux, Jean (1882-1944) - English
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Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, the University of Munich and at Harvard. In 1929 he became Director of Information of France. He held the same post in the governments of Henri and Pétain. After the First World War he became known for his novels and in later years his plays attracted attention. Many of these were modern treatments of ancient Greek pieces. His last play was "La folle de Chaillot", which he completed in 1943.

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Giraudoux, Jean. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
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French novelist and dramatist. He was a prolific writer and combined his literary work with a long and successful diplomatic career. His early novels, which display his impressionistic, fanciful style, include Les Provinciales (1909) and Suzanne and the Pacific (1921, tr. 1923). Amica America (1919) relates a stay in the United States.

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Biography of Jean Giraudoux - French Dramatist - English
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French writer Jean Giraudoux, while successful as a novelist, is most remembered for his dramas. He developed an antiheroic attitude of comic irony, a shift from romantic and realistic traditions...

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The Theatrical Art of Jean Giraudoux - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/giraudoux002.html

An analysis of the theatrical art of Jean Giraudoux.

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Jean Giraudoux - German
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Jean Giraudoux wächst auf als Sohn eines kleinen Beamten in südwestfranzösischen Kleinstädten. Dank eines Begabten-Stipendiums kann er das Gymnasium in Châteauroux besuchen, dann die classes préparatoires des Lycée Lakanal (wo der bekannte Germanist Charles Andler sein Interesse für Deutschland weckt) und schließlich die École Normale Supérieure, die er 1905 als bester seines Jahrgangs mit dem diplôme d'allemand abschließt.

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Jean GIRAUDOUX: Ondine - French
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Ondine de Jean Giraudoux, littérature, théâtre.

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Giraudoux, Jean - English
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1882–1944, French novelist and dramatist. He was a prolific writer and combined his literary work with a long and successful diplomatic career. His early novels, which display his impressionistic, fanciful style, include Les Provinciales (1909) and Suzanne and the Pacific (1921, tr. 1923). Amica America (1919) relates a stay in the United States.

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Giraudoux, Jean (1882-1944) - English
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French diplomat, novelist, and playwright; his first novel, Suzanne et le Pacifique, was published in 1921. In 1928 the novel Siegfried et le Limousin (1922) was successfully adapted for the stage.

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WIEM: Giraudoux Jean - Polish
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Dramaturg i pisarz francuski. Pochodzi³ z rodziny wie¶niaczej, kszta³ci³ siê w Châteauroux i w Pary¿u, a tak¿e przez pewien czas w Monachium, gdzie pog³êbi³ znajomo¶æ kultury niemieckiej. W Harwardzie by³ lektorem. Zajmowa³ siê równie¿ krytyk±. W I wojnie ¶wiatowej s³u¿y³ w wojsku, w stopniu sier¿anta. Z do¶wiadczeñ tego czasu powsta³o kilka opowiadañ.

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Biographie de Jean Giraudoux - French
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