François Mauriac was a French author; member of the Académie française ; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur . He was born François Charles Mauriac in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes. On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux. Mauriac had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately... following the liberation of France in World War II. At that time, Camus edited the resistance paper Combat while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. Mauriac also doubted that justice would be impartial or dispassionate given the emotional turmoil of liberation.
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| Birthdate: | October 11, 1885 |
| Birthplace: | Bordeaux |
| Date of death: | September 1, 1970 |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
| Also known as: | Francois Mauriac, François Mauriac, François Mauriac |