Jean Dutourd

Jean Dutourd studied at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and Faculty of Arts of Paris. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Radio Courtoisie, France Soir and Éditions Gallimard. Positions recorded include president and seat 31 of the Académie française. Works named in the authority record are Mémoires de Mary Watson and The Best Butter. Distinctions recorded are Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the National Order of Merit, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Prince Pierre Award.

• Name — Jean Dutourd • Born — 14 January 1920 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 17 January 2011 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — Lycée Janson-de-Sailly • Alma Mater — University of Paris • Occupation — Writer • Known for — Member of the Académie française

• Illustration — Dutourd's gravestone in Montparnasse Cemetery Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, Le Complexe de César, appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. On July 14, 1978, a bomb destroyed his apartment, planted by people who disliked his writing style. Parisian intellectuals were somewhat dismayed, as they had not generally caused such a stir with their own writings. This incident, however, had a happy consequence: Jean Dutourd was elected to the Académie française, to the seat of Jacques Rueff, on November 30 of the same year (seat 31)retrieved 18/1/2026, https: web.archive.org/web/20110120192356/http: www.lepost.fr/article/2011/01/18/2374655_mort-le-l-ecrivain-jean-dutourd.html. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91.

L'Œil d'Apollon, by G. K. Chesterton; Les Muses parlent, by Truman Capote; and Le Vieil Homme et la Mer, by Ernest Hemingway.

He was employed by Radio Courtoisie, France Soir, Éditions Gallimard and RTL. Recorded positions include president and seat 31 of the Académie française. He belonged to Académie Française, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux.

Jean Dutourd is recorded as writer, journalist, critic and resistance fighter.