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Jean Cayrol
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- Born
- 1911
- Works
- 111
Top works
- N' oubliez pas que nous nous aimons
- La vie répond
- HISTOIRE D'UNE MAISON
- Histoire de la forêt
- KAKEMONO HOTEL
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Film & TV
Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Jean Cayrol (6 June 1911 – 10 February 2005) was a French poet, publisher, and member of the Académie Goncourt born in Bordeaux. He is perhaps best known for writing the narration in Alain Resnais's 1955 documentary film, Night and Fog. He was a major contributor to the subversive, philosophical French publication Tel Quel. In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of France, Cayrol joined the French…
Known for
- Apostrophes — Self1975
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1911
- Active to
- 2005
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Bordeaux
- Place of death
- Bordeaux
- Employer
- Éditions du Seuil
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
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- date of birth
- 1910-06-06
- date of death
- 2005-02-10
- name in native language
- Jean Cayrol
- place of detention
- Mauthausen concentration camp
- writing language
- French
- member of
- Académie Goncourt
- birth name
- Jean Raphaël Marie Noël Cayrol
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