Jean Giraudoux is a French writer and diplomat, born on October 29, 1882 in Bellac in the Haute-Vienne and died on January 31, 1944 (at 61 years) in Paris.
Brilliant student and soldier decorated during the First World War, he held diplomatic and administrative positions while writing novels (Suzanne and the Pacific in 1921, Siegfried and Limousin in 1922) before heading to the theater after his meeting with the Actor Louis Jouvet who will stage and perform his main works.
He is best known today for his theater which includes famous plays such as Amphitryon 38 (1928), La guerre de Troie (1935), Électre (1937), Ondine (1939) Chaillot played in 1945 after his death. Jean Giraudoux participated, like other playwrights of the years 1930-1940 (Cocteau, Anouilh, Sartre, Camus for example) in the rewriting of ancient myths enlightened by modern mentalities. He has combined poetic fantasy and a taste for unusual images, and also associates the tragic and the light in a language elegant and fine, sometimes even poetic as in Intermezzo or Ondine.
Brilliant student and soldier decorated during the First World War, he held diplomatic and administrative positions while writing novels (Suzanne and the Pacific in 1921, Siegfried and Limousin in 1922) before heading to the theater after his meeting with the Actor Louis Jouvet who will stage and perform his main works.
He is best known today for his theater which includes famous plays such as Amphitryon 38 (1928), La guerre de Troie (1935), Électre (1937), Ondine (1939) Chaillot played in 1945 after his death. Jean Giraudoux participated, like other playwrights of the years 1930-1940 (Cocteau, Anouilh, Sartre, Camus for example) in the rewriting of ancient myths enlightened by modern mentalities. He has combined poetic fantasy and a taste for unusual images, and also associates the tragic and the light in a language elegant and fine, sometimes even poetic as in Intermezzo or Ondine.
