Education
After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal.
( Par les champs et les bois de Sologne, Raboliot a fait ...)
Par les champs et les bois de Sologne, Raboliot a fait du braconnage son art et sa passion, le symbole d'une insupportable liberté défiant l'autorité. Au gendarme Bourrel, il tend des pièges comme aux lapins. Ce dernier, humilié, a juré sa perte, et, bientôt, les parties de chasse nocturnes tournent à la haine, au duel à mort... (Prix Goncourt 1925)
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After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal.
Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. Genevoix was accepted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, being first in his class, but was soon mobilized into World War I in 1914. He was quickly promoted to a lieutenant, but was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Marne in 1914 and returned to Paris.
The battle left a profound influence on him, and he wrote the tetrology Ceux de 14 (The Men of 1914), which brought him recognition among the public.
Around 1919, Genevoix contracted Spanish influenza, causing him to move back to the Loire. In 1928, his father died, and Genevoix moved to Vernelles in Loiret.
At around this time, Genevoix started to travel abroad to Canada, Scandinavia, Mexico, and Africa. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 October 1946 and was formally inducted the following year.
In 1950, he returned to Paris and became secretary of the Académie française in 1958.
In 1970, Genevoix, who was president of the program committee of French state radio, started a television series on French writers. He died on 8 September 1980. The Académie française literary Prix Maurice Genevoix is named for him.
( Par les champs et les bois de Sologne, Raboliot a fait ...)
Académie française.