Jacques Rivière
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Jacques Rivière was a French "man of letters"—a writer, critic and editor who was "a major force in the intellectual life of France in the period immediately following World War I". He edited the maga
Jacques Rivière 1922
Jean Giraudoux
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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
Jacques Rivière
…of the NRF resumed on 1 June 1919, and it later published the works of such writers as Marcel Proust, François Mauriac, Paul Valéry, Saint-John Perse, Jean Giraudoux and Jules Romains. Rivière is remembered primarily for his 1923–24 exchange of letters with Antonin Artaud, for the remarkable ways Artaud resists…
Giraudoux in 1927