12 Facts About Pierre Frondaie

Pierre Frondaie began writing as a teenager and soon devoted himself to the theme that would come to define his career as a man of letters, namely love and its vicissitudes.

In 1925, Frondaie published L'Homme a l'Hispano, the novel that would go on to become his bestseller, translated in 15 languages.

Pierre Frondaie soon caught the attention of Hollywood, then in its infancy, where several cinematographic adaptations were made of his works for an English-speaking audience by Paramount Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn.

From Broadway to Hollywood, few French authors can claim the kind of success Pierre Frondaie enjoyed in America at the time.

Pierre Frondaie was then referred to as a veritable literary phenomenon.

From 1942 until his death, Pierre Frondaie ran the Theatre de l'Ambigu, in Paris, and focused on directing and producing several of his own plays.

Pierre Frondaie traveled frequently across the world, jetting between homes in Paris and Arcachon, making regular visits to the Basque coast, and rubbing elbows with the jazz-age beau monde.

Pierre Frondaie was married four times, to illustrious and independent women, but never had children.

Pierre Frondaie's first wife, Jeanne Gellier, was an actress known under the stage name of Michelle.

Pierre Frondaie was then betrothed to lawyer and author Jeanne Loviton.

Pierre Frondaie would spend the rest of his life with her.

In 1948, Pierre Frondaie died of a heart attack in Vaucresson, a residential suburb of Paris, in the home he shared with Maria Favella.