Maurice Druon
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Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" between 1985 and 1999.
Druon in 2003
Maurice Druon in Orenburg in Russia in 2003.
Maurice Druon in Orenburg, 2003.
Maurice Druon in Orenburg, 2003.
Joseph Kessel
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Joseph Kessel, also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Maurice Druon
…mother remarried in 1926; Maurice subsequently took the name of his adoptive father, the lawyer René Druon (1874–1961). He was the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he translated the "Chant des Partisans", a French Resistance anthem of World War II, with music and words (in Russian) originally by Anna…
Kessel in June 1948