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Jean Dutourd

Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) was a French novelist. Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, Le Complexe de César, appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91. Source: Article "Jean Dutourd" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Born:
Jan 14, 1920 In Paris, France
Movie/TV Credits:
7
First Appeared:
In the series Samedi soir 1971-01-09
Latest Project:
Movie Trio 1987-04-02
Known For
Poster of Lire
Poster of Apostrophes
Poster of Le Grand Échiquier
Poster of Samedi soir
Filmography
Movie Trio Self 1987-04-02
Movie Portrait de groupe Self 1986-02-05
Movie Lire Self 1986-12-07
Series Champs-Elysées Self 1982-01-16
Series Apostrophes Self 1975-01-10
Series Le Grand Échiquier Self 1972-01-12
Series Samedi soir Self 1971-01-09