Henry de Montherlant

Henry de Montherlant was born in Paris on 20 April 1895. A pupil at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly and then at the collège Sainte-Croix in Neuilly, from which he was expelled in 1912, he discovered bullfighting as an adolescent in Spain, where he was wounded by bulls. Mobilised in 1916, he was gravely wounded at the front and decorated. From 1942, he devoted himself mainly to the theatre. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 March 1960, with no rival. He died in Paris on 21 September 1972.

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