André Malraux, French author, adventurer, and statesman

André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture during his lifetime. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...

Malraux was born in Paris. His parents separated when he was a child and eventually divorced. He was raised by his mother, Berthe Lamy, and maternal grandmother, Adrienne Lamy. His father, a stockbroker, committed suicide in 1930. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Malraux studied Oriental languages at the École des Langues Orientales but did not graduate. At the age of 21 he left for Cambodia with his new wife, Clara Goldschmidt, a German Jewish heiress whom he married in 1921 and divorced in 1946. (They had a daughter, Florence, born 1933, who married the filmmaker Alain Resnais.) He was arrested and almost imprisoned for trying to smuggle out a bas relief from the temple Banteay Srei. Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, but also recognised for... Categories: Stub | Buildings and structures of Cambodia ...

He became highly critical of the French colonial authorities in Indochina and in 1925 helped to organize the Young Annam League and founded the newspaper Indochina in Chains. World map of colonialism circa 1945. ... French Indochina was a federation of French colonies and protectorates in Southeast Asia, part of the French colonial empire. ...

On his return to France he published his first novel, The Temptation of the West (1926). This was followed by The Conquerors (1928), The Royal Way (1930) and Man's Fate (French: La Condition Humaine) (1934). For the latter, a powerful novel about the defeat of a communist regime in Shanghai and the choices facing the losers, he won the 1933 Prix Goncourt of literature. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: ; Shanghainese IPA: ) is Chinas largest city and is situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious prize in French language literature, given to the author of the best imaginary prose work of the year. Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ...

In the 1930s Malraux also joined archeological expeditions to Iran and Afghanistan. He founded the International Association of Writers for the Defense of Culture with Louis Aragon. Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982), French historian, poet and novelist. ...

During the Spanish Civil War Malraux served as a pilot for the Republican forces. He was wounded twice during efforts to stop the Falangists' takeover of Madrid. He also toured the United States in an attempt to raise funds for the Republicans. A novel about his experiences, Man's Hope, appeared in 1938. History of Spain Series Prehistoric Spain Roman Spain Medieval Spain Age of Reconquest Age of Expansion Age of Enlightenment Reaction and Revolution First Spanish Republic The Restoration Second Spanish Republic Spanish Civil War The Dictatorship Modern Spain Topics Economic History Military History Social History The Spanish Civil War (July 1936... Falange was a totalitarian clerical fascist political organization founded by José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933 in opposition to the Second Spanish Republic. ... Coat of arms Plaza de España (Spain square) Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W. Population of the city of Madrid proper was 3,093,000 (Madrilenes, madrileños) as of 2003 estimates. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

On the outbreak of the Second World War Malraux joined the French Army and served in a tank unit. He was captured in 1940 during the Western Offensive but escaped and joined the French Resistance. He was captured by the Gestapo in 1944 and even though he underwent a mock execution he was still alive when he was rescued by members of the resistance. He ended up leading Brigade Alsace-Lorraine in defense of Strasbourg and takeover of Stuttgart. He was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre, and the British Distinguished Service Order. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the resulting Vichy France during World War II after France surrendered in 1940. ... The Gestapo was the official secret police force of Nazi Germany. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Alsace Département Bas-Rhin (67) Mayor Fabienne Keller (UMP) (since 2001) Area 78. ... Stuttgart is a city located in southern Germany, it is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg, and has a population of approximately 600,000 as of June 2004. ... The French Resistance Medal was awarded by General Charles de Gaulle to recognize the remarkable acts of faith and of courage that, in France, in the empire and abroad, have contributed to the resistance of the French people against the enemy and against its accomplices since June 18 1940. The... The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of both Belgium and France which was first created in 1915. ... Source: Veterans Affairs Canada The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ...

During the war he worked on a long novel, The Struggle Against the Angel, the manuscript of which was destroyed by the Gestapo upon his capture in 1944. An surviving introductory section, The Walnut Trees of Altenberg, was published after the war.

He had two sons by Josette Clotis: Pierre-Gauthier (1940-1961) and Vincent (1943-1961). Josette died in 1944 while Malraux was fighting in Alsace, having slipped while boarding a train. Both their sons would die in a single automobile accident, seventeen years later. Capital Strasbourg Area 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller Population  - 2004 estimate  - 1999 census  - Density 1,793,000 1,734,145 209/km² Arrondissements 13 Cantons 75 Communes 903 Départements Bas-Rhin Haut-Rhin Alsace (French: Alsace; Alsatian/German: Elsaß) is a région and also a province of France. ...

After the war General Charles De Gaulle appointed Malraux as his minister of information (1945-1946). In the 1950s he wrote about art and aesthetics, creating the concept of the pan-cultural "Museum Without Walls" in such books as Voices of Silence. He again became a minister for information in 1958, and France's first Minister of Culture from 1960 to 1969. During his term, he created the famous maisons de la culture throughout France, and worked to preserve national monuments. This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική meaning a perceiver or sensitive) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

In 1948 Malraux married his cousin Marie-Madeleine Lioux, a concert pianist who was the widow of his half-brother, Roland Malraux. They separated in 1966. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

An international Malraux Society was founded in the United States in 1968. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

During the 1960's and 1970's, he wrote books about Picasso and de Gaulle, as well as an autobiography (Antimemoires). Malraux's last political engagement was in support of Bangladesh in its 1971 secession from Pakistan. A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...

At the end of his life he lived with the writer Louise Leveque de Vilmorin. He wrote a moving memoir of his own final illness, Lazarus, in 1975. André Malraux died in Paris on November 23, 1976. Louise Levêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1904-26 December 1969) was a French woman of letters: novelist, poet, journalist. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bibliography includes

• La Tentation de l'Occident, 1926 (The Temptation of the West, 1926)
• Les Conquérants, 1928 (The Conquerors, 1928)
• La Voie royale, 1930 (The Royal Way, 1930)
• La Condition humaine, 1933 (Man's Fate, 1934)
• Le Temps du mépris, 1935 (Days of Wrath)
• L'Espoir, 1937 (Man's Hope, 1938)
• La Psychologie de l'art, 1947-1949 (The Psychology of Art)
• Les Voix du silence, 1951 (The Voices of Silence, 1953)
• Antimémoires, 1967 (Anti-Memoirs - autobiography)
• Des Chênes qu'on abat, 1971 (Felled Oaks / The Fallen Oaks)

Written by Andre Malraux in 1933, Mans Fate La Condition Humane is about a group of communist revolutionaries in China. ...

External link

• A biography (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/malraux.htm)

• An article describing Malraux as something of a fabulist (http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/mar05/malraux.htm)

• Malraux's early, surrealist writings (http://www.fuguestatepress.com/malraux.html)

Book

• Andre Malraux: A Biography(1997) by Curtis Cate (ISBN 208066795)
• Malraux : A Life(2005) by Oliver Todd (ISBN 0375407022)