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Maurice Druon
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Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.
Quotes
Sous son règne, la France était grande et les Français malheureux.
Under his reign France was great and the French wretched.
Le Roi de fer (1955) Prologue. Tr. Humphrey Hare, The Iron King (1956)
On Philip IV
[Bernard Buffet's art possesses a] human and inhuman aspect... an intransigence that can be both selfish and generous at the same time.
Cited by Dominique Gagneux in "Bernard Buffet: The Oxymoron, or the Paradoxes of a Painter", in Fabrice Hergott & Dominique Gagneux (eds.), Bernard Buffet: Rétrospective, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Paris Musées (2016), p. 15. ISBN 978-2-7596-0331-2
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Category:Novelists from France
Category:Members of the Académie Française
Category:People from Normandy
Category:Jews from France
Category:1918 births
Category:2009 deaths