Background
Guimard was born at Saint-Mars-la-Jaille (Loire-Atlantique).
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Guimard was born at Saint-Mars-la-Jaille (Loire-Atlantique).
His most famous work was Les Choses de la Vie, which was adapted to film, with a complete change of its ending, by Claude Sautet, with Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli. Following a poor performance at the private Saint-Stanislas school of Nantes, he began a career as a journalist. During World World War II he reported for the provincial paper L"Echo de la Loire and later had a job as a news editor for another regional daily, L"Ouest-Eclair.
He covered French broadcasting in the op-ed pages of Tribune de Paris for four years.
In 1945 he wrote a comedy, Seventh Sky, which played briefly. His literary career began in 1956 with the successful, award-winning novel False Friends.
One year later, he published The Irony of Fate which, like Rue du Havre, explores the role of chance in human relationships. The book was the basis for a film by Edouard Molinaro.
Guimard was in charge of a mission for the French President François Mitterrand from Mitterrand"s election in 1981 until August 1982.
"My only regret is not to have obtained at the time of my passage to the Elysium the creation of an academy of the Sea", Guimard said, affirming that this experiment "was not directed, but only one long accident". He then returned to literature after a decade. He published a short story on Giraudoux, Giraudoux? Hello!.
(1988) and novels such as A Combination of Circumstances (1990), The Stone Age (1992), and First Comers (1997).
Paul Guimard died in Hyères (Var). The style of both writers slightly converged in that respect.
Groult"s latest works (Les Vaisseaux du coeur) are more nostalgic, and Guimard"s "brother" novel, also about human destiny and sea (Le Mauvais temps), is more sensible to the role of human will as opposed to fate.
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Guimard was a member of the audio-visual communication authority from 1982 to 1986.
