Maurice Bedel
Illustration — Maurice Bedel in 1927 Maurice Bedel (Paris, 30 December 1883 – Thuré (Vienne), 15 October 1954) was a French novelist and essayist. He was awarded the prix Goncourt in 1927 for Jérôme 60° latitude nord. He was elected in 1948 as president of the Société des gens de lettres.
Maurice Bedel
Agence de presse Meurisse · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1883. · Paris.
- Died
- 1954. · Thuré.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- writer, physician and novelist.
- Fields
- medicine and literature.
- Honours
- Prix Goncourt.
- Languages
- French.
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Maurice Bedel (30 December 1883 – 15 October 1954) was a writer, novelist and physician.
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Maurice Bedel was born on 30 December 1883 in Paris. Maurice Bedel died on 15 October 1954; the place of death is Thuré, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Thuré (Vienne).
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• Jérôme 60° latitude nord (1927) • Molinoff Indre-et-Loire (1928) • Philippine (1930) • Fascisme an VII (1929) • L'Amour camarade (1931) • Une Enquête sur l'amour (1932) • Zulfu (1933) • Zigzags (1932) • la Nouvelle Arcadie (1934) • l'Alouette aux nuages (1935) • Mémoire sans malice sur les dames d'aujourd'hui (1935) • la Touraine (1935) • Monsieur le professeur Jubier (1936) • le Laurier d'Apollon (1936) • Géographie de mille hectares (1937) • Bengali (1937) • la France des Français et celle des autres (1937) • Monsieur Hitler (1937) • Berthe au grand pied (1943) • Traité du plaisir (1946) • Destin de la personne humaine (1948) • Tropiques noirs (1950) • le Mariage des couleurs (1951) • Voyage de Jérôme aux États-Unis d'Amérique (1953) • Histoire de mille hectares (1953)
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Maurice Bedel is recorded with the occupation physician. Recorded as writer, physician and novelist.
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1883
Maurice Bedel was born on 30 December 1883.
1954
Maurice Bedel died on 15 October 1954.
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