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Among modern French journalists and biographers, Andre Maurois has the distinction of being more English than most Englishmen. His real name is Emile Hcrzog. He was born in 1885 in the small French city of Elbeuf, son of a family of textile manufacturers. His father compelled him to manage the family mills despite his early literary ambitions, his youthful mastery of English, his desire to fit into pre-War literary circles in Paris. Assigned to British Headquarters during the War, he wrote Les Silences du Colonel Bramble in 1918, found that his publisher did not believe a novel about...
...biographical writing is a method of escape. Emile Herzog (he adopted the pseudonym since his first book, a war novel, was published while he was still an officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found...
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