Paul Morand

Paul Morand was born in Paris on 13 March 1888, the son of Eugène Morand, a painter and senior civil servant. Placed first in the embassies competition in 1913, he was attached to London and made a career in diplomacy. His short stories and narratives made him famous in the twenties. Having rallied to the Vichy regime, he was its ambassador in Bucharest, then in Bern; dismissed at the Liberation, he lived in exile in Switzerland. His candidacy to the Académie française, set aside in 1958 owing to the opposition of General de Gaulle, succeeded in 1968. He died in Paris on 23 July 1976.

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• NovelThe Man in a HurryL'Homme presséPaul Morand · 1941Literature