Maurois

American

[maw-rwa] / mɔˈrwa /

noun

André Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.

Maurois British

/ mɔrwa /

noun

André (ɑ̃dre), pen name of Émile Herzog. 1885–1967, French writer, best known for his biographies, such as those of Shelley, Byron, and Proust

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“The history of France, a permanent miracle, has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels,” the French author André Maurois wrote.

From The New Yorker

The questions 1 Ariel by André Maurois was the first of what?

From The Guardian

Observer.—“The flavour of M. Maurois’ humour loses little in this translation....

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The flavour of M. Maurois' humour loses little in this translation....

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