Jean Dutourd

Jean Dutourd

Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) was a French novelist. Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, Le Complexe de César, appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91. Source: Article "Jean Dutourd" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Jean Dutourd
  • Popularity: 2.555
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1920-01-14
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As:
img

Jean Dutourd Movies

  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Lire

    Lire

    6.2 1986 HD

    Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer...

    img
  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Portrait de groupe

    Portrait de groupe

    1 1986 HD

    Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a...

    img
  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Trio

    Trio

    1 1987 HD

    Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to...

    img
  • 1972
    imgS20 E8

    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

    img
  • 1971
    imgS5 E1

    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

    img
  • 1975
    imgS16 E25

    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

    img
  • 1982
    imgS13 E2

    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

    img