François Mauriac

François Mauriac was born in Bordeaux on 11 October 1885 into a bourgeois, Catholic and conservative family. After studying literature in Bordeaux, he entered the École des chartes in 1908, then devoted himself to writing. Elected to the Académie française on 1 June 1933, he broke with the right at the time of the Spanish Civil War and, under the Occupation, took part in the clandestine press of the Resistance. A political columnist, he kept a weekly bloc-notes, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952 and died on 1 September 1970.

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• NovelThérèse DesqueyrouxFrançois Mauriac · 1927Literature