Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.
10 Facts About Jean Giraudoux
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Jean Giraudoux is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
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Jean Giraudoux's work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy.
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Jean Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, where his father, Leger Jean Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transport.
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Jean Giraudoux studied at the Lycee Lakanal in Sceaux and upon graduation traveled extensively in Europe.
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Jean Giraudoux married in 1918 and in the subsequent inter-war period produced the majority of his writing.
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Jean Giraudoux first achieved literary success through his novels, notably Siegfried et le Limousin and Eglantine.
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Jean Giraudoux became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry and Maurice Valency.
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Jean Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.
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Jean Giraudoux is buried in the Cimetiere de Passy in Paris.