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Georges Duhamel

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Georges Duhamel

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French writer (1884–1966)

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Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) was a French writer, poet, novelist, and physician. Born in Paris, he served as a physician and participated in World War I. His literary career included works such as *The French position*, *Vue de la terre promise*, *Défense des lettres*, *Notes sur la technique poétique*, and *Mémorial de Cauchois*. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received the Prix Goncourt, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, the Croix de guerre 1914–1918, and the Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century.

Duhamel was a member of the Académie Française, the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, the Académie Nationale de Médecine, and the Abbaye de Créteil. He held the position of president and worked for the Alliance française. A father to Antoine Duhamel, he wrote in French and died in Valmondois.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1884
Died
1966
Works
566

Top works

  • Textes choisis de Georges Duhamel de l'Académie française
  • Biographie de mes fantômes, 1901-1906
  • The French position
  • Vue de la terre promise / Georges Duhamel
  • Défense des lettres

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1925-07-30
Active to
2014-09-11

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

    · 2018 · cited 8,300x

  2. Dynamical mean-field theory of strongly correlated fermion systems and the limit of infinite dimensions

    · 1996 · cited 6,412x

  3. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    · 2024 · cited 4,521x

  4. Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men

    · 2010 · cited 4,373x

  5. Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    · 2012 · cited 4,299x

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Quotes

  • “I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.”
  • “… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles.”
  • “The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.”
  • “If the public gets out of the habit of reading they will not come back to it. We shall enter a new phase of our history from which there is no turning back.”
  • “If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual riches, but, more important still, it would lose its recipes for living.”
  • “In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Georges Duhamel (/ˌdjuːəˈmɛl/; French: [dy.amɛl]; 30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. He was also the father of the musicologist and composer Antoine Duhamel.

Biography

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