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Maurice Druon

(1918–2009) Politician France

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Maurice Druon was a politician from France, best known for Le Roi de fer.

Quick Facts About Maurice Druon

Born: April 23, 1918
Died: April 14, 2009
Nationality: France
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Le Roi de fer
Known for: Tistou: The Boy with Green Thumbs, The Accursed Kings, Q3233030

About Maurice Druon

Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Order of Friendship of Peoples Order of Friendship Concours général Prince Pierre Award Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Paulée de Meursault Prize

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Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ honorary doctorate of the University of Tirana Prix Goncourt

Quotes by Maurice Druon

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Anarchy

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Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

France

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“A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.”

Betrayal

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“First love is the only pure and happy one. If it goes wrong, nothing can replace it. Later loves can never attain…

First love

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“It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape…

Communication

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I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

Churchill

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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has…

Best

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“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!”

Accursed

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“Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers…

Death

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“It is to be remarked that, during this period, nearly all the women at the Court of France were called either Jeanne…

History

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Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and…

Form

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“The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing”

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“It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute…

Absolute power

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“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh…

Time

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“vous lui ressemblez,”

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“Each one of us has his shining hour in the events of his century. On one occasion it may be Monseigneur of…

History

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I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's…

America

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Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Carrie

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“For, in those centuries, when numbers of children died in the cradle and half the women in childbirth, when epidemics ravaged adult…

Adult life

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“Prince Edward confirmed the sentence; but he was reflecting deeply and beginning silently to form views as to how a man destined…

Every man

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I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I…

Attachment

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The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love…

Because

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“Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.”

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