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Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat, and playwright, considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy, with a dominant theme of the relationship between man and woman, or between man and some unattainable ideal.
Jean Giraudoux was born on the 29th of October 1882 in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France. His father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transport.
In 1915, Giraudoux became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour. He served with distinction during World War I.
Actor and theater director Louis Jouvet was Giraudoux's primary theatrical collaborator. Their partnership began in 1928 when Jouvet radically streamlined Giraudoux's novel Siegfried for the stage, premiering at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées.
Giraudoux became well known in the English-speaking world through award-winning adaptations by Christopher Fry (Tiger at the Gates) and Maurice Valency (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted, The Apollo of Bellac). Valency's translated collection was published in 1958 by Hill and Wang.
Giraudoux died on the 31st of January 1944, in Paris, at the age of 61, under mysterious circumstances. There has been speculation that he was poisoned. He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.