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Henry de Montherlant (Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant) was born on 20 April, 1895 in Paris, France, is a French writer (1895–1972). Discover Henry de Montherlant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant
Occupation writer
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 20 April 1895
Birthday 20 April
Birthplace Paris, France
Date of death 21 September, 1972
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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1895

Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist.

1897

A member of that group was Philippe Jean Giquel (1897–1977), Montherlant's two-year-junior "special friend", with whom he was madly in love although it never became physical.

According to Montherlant this "special friendship" had raised the fierce and jealous opposition of abbé de La Serre, who managed to get the older boy expelled.

1905

In 1905 reading Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz caused him a lifelong fascination with Ancient Rome and a proficient interest in Latin.

He also was enthusiastic about school comradeship, sports and bullfighting.

When he was 15 his parents sent him alone to Spain where he became initiated in the corrida, killing two young bulls.

1912

On 5 April 1912, aged almost seventeen, Henry was expelled from the Catholic Sainte-Croix de Neuilly school for being a "corruptor of souls".

Together with other five youngsters he had founded a group called 'La Famille' (the Family), a kind of order of chivalry whose members were bonded by an oath of fidelity and mutual assistance.

1913

He was also a talented draughtsman and after 1913 resorted to hiring young people in the street for nude modelling.

1914

After the deaths of his father and mother in 1914 and 1915, he went to live with his doting grandmother and eccentric uncles.

1916

Mobilised in 1916, he was wounded and decorated.

Marked by his experience of war, he wrote Songe ('Dream'), an autobiographic novel, as well as his Chant funèbre pour les morts de Verdun (Funeral Chant for the Dead at Verdun), both exaltations of heroism during the Great War.

1924

His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

1934

Montherlant first achieved critical success with the 1934 novel Les Célibataires, and sold millions of copies of his tetralogy Les Jeunes Filles, written from 1936 through 1939.

In these years Montherlant, a well-to-do heir, traveled extensively, mainly to Spain (where he met and worked with bullfighter Juan Belmonte), Italy, and Algeria, giving vent to his passion for sexually abusing street boys.

At the height of his fame when the war broke out (he had been awarded the Grand Prix by the prestigious Académie Française in 1934), he initially described the German victory as evidence of the superiority of a virile, conquering race.

His early successes were works such as Les Célibataires (The Bachelors) in 1934, and the highly anti-feminist tetralogy Les Jeunes Filles (The Young Girls) (1936–1939), which sold millions of copies and was translated into 13 languages.

1936

He wrote plays such as Pasiphaé (1936), La Reine morte (1942, the first of a series of historical dramas), Malatesta (1946), Le Maître de Santiago (1947), Port-Royal (1954) and Le Cardinal d'Espagne (1960).

He is particularly remembered as a playwright.

In his plays as well as in his novels he frequently portrayed heroic characters displaying the moral standards he professed, and explored the 'irrationality and unpredictability of human behaviour'.

1940

During the Second World War after the fall of France in 1940 he remained in Paris and continued to write plays, poems, essays, and worked as a war correspondent.

1945

Still, after Liberation he was not treated as harshly as those who openly and enthusiastically collaborated; the Committee for the Purification of Writers sentenced him in 1945 to only to one year of abstinence from publishing.

1952

This incident (and Giquel) became a lifelong obsession for Montherlant, who would depict it in the 1952 play La Ville dont le prince est un enfant and his 1969 novel Les Garçons.

Later, in his adult years, he would resume his platonic friendship with Giquel, who would invite the writer to be the godfather of his daughter Marie-Christine.

1960

He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.

Born in Paris, a descendant of an aristocratic (yet obscure) Picard family, he was educated at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and the Sainte-Croix boarding school at Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Henry's father was a hard-line reactionary (to the extent of despising the post-Dreyfus Affair army as too subservient to the Republic, and refusing to have electricity or the telephone installed in his house).

His mother, a formerly lively socialite, became chronically ill due to the difficult childbirth, being bedridden most of the time, and dying at the young age of 43.

From the age of seven or eight, Henry was enthusiastic about literature and began writing.

In 1960, he was elected to a lifetime position at the Académie Française.

1963

His late novel Chaos and Night was published in 1963.

The novels were praised by writers as diverse as Aragon, Bernanos, and Malraux.

Montherlant was well known for his anti-feminist and misogynistic views, as exemplified particularly in The Girls.

Simone de Beauvoir considered his attitudes about women in detail in her The Second Sex.

1968

Some time in 1968, according to Roger Peyrefitte, outside a movie theatre in Paris, 72-year-old Montherlant was attacked and beaten up by a group of youths because he had groped the younger brother of one of them.

Montherlant was seriously injured and blinded in one eye as a result.

The British writer Peter Quennell, who edited a collection of translations of his works, recalled that Montherlant attributed the eye injury to "a fall" instead; and mentions in confirmation that Montherlant suffered from vertigo.

1972

After going almost blind in his later years and becoming the target of scorners like Peyrefitte, Montherlant died in 1972 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after swallowing a cyanide capsule.

His ashes were scattered by Jean-Claude Barat and Gabriel Matzneff in Rome, at the Forum, among the Temple of Portunus and into the Tiber.

1982

His standard biography was written by Pierre Sipriot, and published in two volumes (1982 and 1990), revealing the full extent of Montherlant's sexual habits.