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Eugène Ionesco

Died in 1994

Eugène Ionesco was born on 26 November 1909 in Slatina, the son of a Romanian lawyer. He spent a large part of his childhood in France and returned to Romania in the twenties, studied French literature in Bucharest and in 1934 published a polemical book against the writers of his country. Having left for France in 1938 with a thesis grant, he had to return during the war, then went back to France in 1942, never to return. Elected to the Académie française in 1970, he died in Paris on 28 March 1994.

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