Background
Mr. Mauriac was born on April 25, 1914 in Paris. He was the eldest son of the author François Mauriac.
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Mr. Mauriac was born on April 25, 1914 in Paris. He was the eldest son of the author François Mauriac.
Claude Mauriac graduated from University Paris in 1943.
Mr. Mauriac was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a cinema critic and arts person of Le Figaro. He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the movie adaptation of his father's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle.
Mr. Mauriac became founder and director of Liberte de l’Esprit, a Gaullist review. From 1954 onward, Claude Mauriac was a literary critic for Figaro, with a weekly column, “La View des lettres.” He was also a film critic for the Figaro litteraire from 1958 to 1972.
Claude Mauriac, an award-winning author and son of famous French novelist Francois Mauriac, forged his own literary reputation as an innovative novelist who wrote on themes of communication and differing perceptions.
Most notable among Mr. Mauriac’s works are the four novels which make up The Interior Dialogue, including The Dinner Party which won the 1959 Prix Medicis, and the ten-volume Le Temps immobile, which considers fifty years of French literature and politics.
Claude Mauriac married Marie-Claude Mante in 1951. They had 3 children.
