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Maurice Druon was a male author from France whose work period began in 1942. He was recognized in the Academie Francaise collection. His notable works include The Iron King, La volupté d'être, La chute des corps, Théâtre, and The royal succession.
Druon was born on 23 April 1918 and died on 14 April 2009. He is associated with 175 works. A quote attributed to him is, "Sous son règne, la France était grande et les Français malheureux."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 23 April 1918
- Died
- 14 April 2009
- Works
- 175
Top works
- Feet of clay
- The Iron King
- La volupté d'être
- La chute des corps
- Théâtre
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1918-04-23
- Active to
- 2009-04-14
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 43
- Total plays
- 2,372
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome
· 2013 · cited 8,956x
- QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis
· 2017 · cited 8,321x
- General Theory of Three-Dimensional Consolidation
· 1941 · cited 8,167x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,195x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,700x
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Quotes
- “Sous son règne, la France était grande et les Français malheureux.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 13th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Political party
- Rally for the Republic
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- MauriceDruon-1953-Harcourt.png
- Work location
- Brussels
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- Commons category
- Maurice Druon
- date of birth
- 1918-04-23
- date of death
- 2009-04-14
- topic's main category
- Category:Maurice Druon
- name in native language
- Maurice Druon
- birth name
- Samuel Roger Charles Wild, puis Druon
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Musée de la Légion d'honneur
- writing language
- French
- place of burial
- Les Artigues-de-Lussac
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Encyclopedic overview
Maurice Druon ( French pronunciation: [mɔʁis dʁyɔ̃]; 23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maurice Druon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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