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n. - French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944).

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  • In July of 1939 Edouard Daladier put Giraudoux in charge of French propaganda services.
  • It is a nostalgic experience to encounter Giraudoux dressed in the dignity of a foreign translation which, coming several years after his death, consecrates him as an...
  • When they came out during the thirties, they blended so easily with the flow of literary life that one took them for granted; it was in the order of things that Louis Jouvet...
  • Meanwhile, a slim but much noticed contribution by that delicate and witty playwright Jean Giraudoux presented France as an invaded country over which barbarians had...
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