1. Madeleine Malraux, nee Marie-Madeleine Lioux was a French concert classical pianist.
17 Facts About Madeleine Malraux
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Madeleine Malraux entered the class of Marguerite Long at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1928.
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Madeleine Malraux won a first prize, began a career as a piano teacher at the Toulouse Conservatory and gave concerts as a soloist.
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On 21 March 1944, Roland Madeleine Malraux was arrested by the Gestapo in Brive-la-Gaillarde and deported to Neuengamme in Germany.
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Madeleine Malraux died during the bombardment of the ocean liner Cap Arcona by the RAF off Lubeck Bay on 3 May 1945.
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In 1945, Madeleine Lioux having returned to Paris and learned of the death of Roland Malraux.
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Madeleine Malraux then settled, with her son Alain, Andre Malraux and his sons, at 18bis avenue Robert-Schuman in Boulogne-Billancourt in a villa designed by Louis Faure-Dujarric.
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Shortly afterwards, Madeleine Malraux became General de Gaulle's Minister of Information.
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In 1946, Madeleine Lioux gave concerts at the La Pleiade art gallery directed by Andre Malraux.
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Madeleine Malraux played Erik Satie, then forgotten, and Benjamin Britten, who was not yet famous.
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On 13 March 1948, she married in Alsace in the strictest privacy Andre Madeleine Malraux who had just divorced in 1947 from Clara Madeleine Malraux.
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Madeleine Malraux plays for the painter the composers he prefers: Chopin, Brahms and of course Satie.
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Madeleine Malraux will take care of the education of the three boys.
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In January 1959, Madeleine Malraux became the Prime Minister of Culture of the nascent Fifth Republic.
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In 1966, as their relationship deteriorated, the couple separated, and Madeleine Malraux moved to New York for part of the year where she resumed her concert career.
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Madeleine Malraux had known how to bring peace and serenity to the "great man" for twenty five years.
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The death of his sons, his political responsibilities transformed Madeleine Malraux: he became irascible, carried away, brittle.