Jules Romains

Louis Farigoule, known as Jules Romains, was born on 26 August 1885 in Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, in the Haute-Loire. A student at the École normale supérieure, he passed the agrégation in philosophy in 1909, taught until 1919, then devoted himself to literature. He founded Unanimism, which attributes a collective soul to human groups, and wrote a cycle of novels in twenty-seven volumes. President of the International PEN Club from 1936 to 1941, he spent the war in the United States and then in Mexico. Elected to the Académie française on 4 April 1946, he died in Paris on 14 August 1972.

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