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Jean Giraudoux (Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux) was born on 29 October, 1882 in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France, is a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944). Discover Jean Giraudoux'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 62 years old?

Popular As Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
Occupation Dramatist
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October 1882
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France
Date of death 1944
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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1882

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.

He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.

His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy.

Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.

Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, where his father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transport.

Giraudoux studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and upon graduation traveled extensively in Europe.

1910

After his return to France in 1910, he accepted a position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1915

With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.

1918

He married in 1918 and in the subsequent inter-war period produced the majority of his writing.

1919

Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

1922

He first achieved literary success through his novels, notably Siegfried et le Limousin (1922) and Eglantine (1927).

1928

An ongoing collaboration with actor and theater director Louis Jouvet, beginning in 1928 with Jouvet's radical streamlining of Siegfried for the stage, stimulated his writing.

But it is his plays that gained him international renown.

He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry (Tiger at the Gates) and Maurice Valency (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted, The Apollo of Bellac).

1932

In politics he was affiliated with the Radical Party, served in the cabinet of Édouard Herriot in 1932, and was appointed as Minister of Information by Édouard Daladier in 1939.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.