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Jean Giraudoux, the Glossary

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.^[1]

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Lycée Lakanal alumni
Prix Blumenthal

Amphitryon 38

Amphitryon 38 is a play written in 1929 by the French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told on stage previously.

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Angels of Sin

Angels of Sin (French: Les Anges du péché) is a 1943 French film directed by Robert Bresson, in his feature directorial debut.

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Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier (18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, and the Prime Minister of France who signed the Munich Agreement before the outbreak of World War II.

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Édouard Herriot

Édouard Marie Herriot (5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. Jean Giraudoux and Édouard Herriot are École Normale Supérieure alumni.

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Bellac

Bellac is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.

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Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright.

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Comédie-Française

The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theatres in France.

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Combat avec l'ange

Combat avec l'ange (Struggle with the Angel) is a novel by French playwright and novelist Jean Giraudoux and published by éditions Grasset in 1934.

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Diplomat

A diplomat (from δίπλωμα; romanized diploma) is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.

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Duel of Angels

Duel of Angels (1963) is an English-language adaptation by Christopher Fry of the play Pour Lucrèce (1944) by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

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Electra (Giraudoux play)

Electra (French title: Électre) is a two-act play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Florence Meyer Blumenthal

Florence Meyer Blumenthal (1875 – 1930) was an American philanthropist who founded the Fondation franco-américaine Florence Blumenthal (Franco-American Florence Blumenthal Foundation), which awarded the Prix Blumenthal from 1919-1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians — to promote Franco-American relations. Jean Giraudoux and Florence Meyer Blumenthal are prix Blumenthal.

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Haute-Vienne

Haute-Vienne (Nauta Vinhana, Nauta Viena; Upper Vienne) is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Judith (Giraudoux)

Judith is a play written in 1931 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

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L'Impromptu de Paris

L'Impromptu de Paris (In English: The Shepherd of Paris) is a play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Les Gracques

Les Gracques is an unfinished play by Jean Giraudoux published after the author's death.

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Louis Jouvet

Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 – 16 August 1951) was a French actor, theatre director and filmmaker.

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Lycée Lakanal

Lycée Lakanal is a public secondary school in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area.

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Maurice Valency

Maurice Valency (22 March 1903 – 28 September 1996) was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award-winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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Minister of Transport (France)

The Minister of Transport (French: Ministre des Transports) is a cabinet member in the Government of France.

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Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)

The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) is the ministry of the Government of France that handles France's foreign relations.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Ondine (play)

Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué that tells the story of Hans and Ondine.

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Passy Cemetery

Passy Cemetery (Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Jean Giraudoux and Passy Cemetery are Burials at Passy Cemetery.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Pleins pouvoirs

Pleins pouvoirs ('Full powers') is a book written in 1939 by French author and diplomat Jean Giraudoux in which he discusses proposed reforms needed in France in the context of the nation's cultural heritage.

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Prix Blumenthal

The Prix Blumenthal (or Blumenthal Prize) was a grant or stipend awarded through the philanthropy of Florence Meyer Blumenthal (1875–1930) – and the foundation she created, Fondation franco-américaine Florence Blumenthal (Franco-American Florence Blumenthal Foundation) – to discover young French artists, aid them financially, and in the process draw the United States and France closer together through the arts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraudoux

Also known as Giraudoux, Giraudoux, Hyppolyte, Hyppolyte Giraudoux, Jean Giradoux, Jean Girardoux.

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Prix Blumenthal

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