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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French playwright world health organization wrote internationally acclaimed plays.

He was innate around Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France.

Giraudoux was as well the prose writer & served France as a diplomat & government official. Within his youth he traveled overseas, camping Germany, Italy, a Balkans, Canada, & a United States, in which he spent a year (1906-07) as an teacher at Harvard University.

Giving to France, he served around World War I, was twice wounded, & became a foremost writer ever to exist as awarded a wartime Legion of Honor. The meeting sustaining Louis Jouvet, in 1928, caused his writing.

Ab initio of World War II he served as Minister of Data under Premier Edouard Daladier.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy, Paris, France.

Works
Comedies Amphitrion 38- see Amphitrion Apollo of Bellac Dramas The Trojan war will not take place The Madwoman of Chaillot Ondine

The Theatrical Art of Jean Giraudoux
Analysis of Giraudoux's style and the nature of his dramatic works.

Wikipedia: Jean Giraudoux
Biography of the French dramatist with link to a collection of quotations attributed to him at Wikiquote.






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