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Jacques Laurent

ジャック・ローラン

Jakku Rōran

Aliases: Jacques Laurent-Cély
Pen Names: Cecil Saint-LaurentUsed for historical novels and popular fiction, J.C. LaurentUsed for detective novels, Albéric VarenneUsed for essays

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1919-01-05 (Paris, France)
Died
2000-12-29 (Paris, France) age 81
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
Writer, Journalist, Film director, Screenwriter
Active Years
1947-2000
Affiliations
Académie française, Hussards
Memberships
Académie française
Influenced By
Roger Nimier
Influenced
Hussards writers

Education

Lycée Condorcet
Literature
Country: France

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1971
Work: Les Bêtises
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: 受賞
Prix du Quai des Orfèvres
1953
Work: Sophie et le crime
Result: 受賞
Académie française membership
1986
Organization: Académie française
Result: 選出

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Bêtises

1971 Novel

Goncourt Prize-winning novel in 1971.

Follies of everyday life

Darling Caroline

1947 Historical novel

Adventure novel set in the early French Revolution.

RevolutionLoveAdventure
Adaptations
  • [Film] Darling Caroline / Richard Pottier (1951)
  • [Film] A Caprice of Darling Caroline / Jean Devaivre (1953)

Bibliography

  • La Mort à boire (1947)
  • Les Corps tranquilles (1948)
  • Les Bêtises (1971)

Adaptations

  • Lola Montès (1955, dir. Max Ophüls)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Light and satirical styleRich descriptions in historical novels
Recurring Motifs
Adventurous womenHistorical eventsAnti-establishment

Health

  • Suicide
    2000年
    Cause of death

Legacy

Goncourt Prize winner and member of the Académie française. Prolific novelist associated with the Hussards movement.

In Popular Culture

  • Many works adapted into films

Trivia

  • Used numerous pen names
  • Member of the Hussards literary movement
  • Fought with Algerian Tirailleurs in WWII