![]() ![]() He was the only member of the Académie française to publish a Resistance text with the Editions de Minuit. 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. ![]() Ī former Action française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. On 1 June 1933, he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux. 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. ![]() He was a life-long Catholic.įrançois Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie françaiseįrançois Charles Mauriac ( French pronunciation: , Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). ![]() Novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, journalist ![]()
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