François Charles Mauriac (French pronunciation: ​[fÊ É'̃swa ʃaÊ l
moÊ jak], Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 â€" 1
September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and
journalist, a member of theAcadémie française (from 1933), and
laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the
Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. He was a lifelong
Catholic.François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He
studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905,
after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the
École des Chartes.On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the
Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.[1]A former Action
française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil
War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. After
the fall of France to the Axis during the Second World War, he briefly
supported the collaborationist régime of Marshal Pétain, but joined
the Resistance as early as December 1941. He was the only member of
the Académie française to publish a Resistance text with the
Editions de Minuit.
moÊ jak], Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 â€" 1
September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and
journalist, a member of theAcadémie française (from 1933), and
laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the
Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. He was a lifelong
Catholic.François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He
studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905,
after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the
École des Chartes.On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the
Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.[1]A former Action
française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil
War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. After
the fall of France to the Axis during the Second World War, he briefly
supported the collaborationist régime of Marshal Pétain, but joined
the Resistance as early as December 1941. He was the only member of
the Académie française to publish a Resistance text with the
Editions de Minuit.
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