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    Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 20 March 1976) is a French journalist and author. Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
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    and Clermont-Tonnerre's palace was sacked. Clermont-Tonnerre, with an axe held over his head, had to revoke the royal edict. Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre...
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    Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (October 10, 1747 – August 10, 1792) was a French nobleman, military officer, and politician during...
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    Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpɛri/, US: /-ɡzuːpeɪˈriː/, French:...
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  • et de la Communication, as member of honour). 2011: Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (laureate 2010), Guillaume Durand, Jean-Louis Ezine, Olivia de Lamberterie...
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    Joël Dicker (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers). The...
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    François Mauriac (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Jesus 1964 - De Gaulle de François Mauriac (French edition), 1966 English -(Doubleday) 1919 – Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse: De quelques coeurs...
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    Giuliano da Empoli (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    debut novel Le Mage du Kremlin, for which he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1973, Giuliano da Empoli...
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    Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books...
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    Patrick Modiano (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française...
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    Georges Bernanos (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who...
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    Laurent Binet (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    conquest of Europe by Atahualpa. The novel was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 2019 and was published in English by Farrar, Straus...
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    Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s də ʃɑtobʁijɑ̃]; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix...
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    Anne Wiazemsky (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    returned to Paris in 1962. She graduated from the high school Ecole Sainte Marie de Passy in Paris. Wiazemsky made her on-screen acting debut at the age of 18...
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    Joseph Kessel (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    11 mai (1924) Mary de Cork (1925) Les captifs (1926; Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française) Nuits de princes (1927) Belle de Jour (1928; it inspired...
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    Jean Raspail (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie française. The French government honoured him...
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    Jonathan Littell (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Bienveillantes), won two major French awards, including the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l'Académie française. Littell grew up in France and the United States and...
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    Albert Cohen (novelist) (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    he was a child. Albert Cohen discusses this period in his novel Le Livre de ma mère (The Book of My Mother). He studied at a private Catholic school....
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    Pierre Victor, baron de Malouet, Nicolas Bergasse, Gérard de Lally-Tollendal and Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre. On 9 July, Mounier's...
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    Amélie Nothomb (category Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique)
    about corporate life in Japan Fear and Trembling won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1999, and in 2015 she was elected to the Royal Academy...
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    Sallenave, Maurizio Serra Prix de l'Académie française: Dominique Barberis, Sorj Chalandon, Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre, François-Henri Désérable, Joël...
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  • Monde, France, 31 August 2013, p. 63 Adélaïde De Clermont-Tonnerre, "Les états d’art de Pierre Yovanovitch", Point de vue, September 2013, p. 54 Eric Jansen...
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  • Things by Virginie Grimaldi (2018). The Last of Our Kind by Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (2018). The Twelve Tasks of Asterix by Albert Uderzo and René...
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    Pascal Quignard (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Carus 1991: Prix de la langue française 1998: Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, for Vie secrète 1998: Grand prix du roman de la Ville de Paris 2000: Grand...
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    Michel Tournier (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix...
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  • 2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. "Le Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française à Eric Faye". Le Parisien (in French). 28 October 2010...
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    son of count Marie-Amédèe de Clermont-Tonnerre and Rosanne Tailleferre); has issue: Countess Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonerre (born 20 March 1976). Married...
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    Pierre Schoendoerffer (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Médaille militaire Croix de Guerre TOE Croix du combattant volontaire Civic honors Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite...
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    end of June 1788, just after the Day of the Tiles, de Vaux replaced the duc de Clermont-Tonnerre as lieutenant général commanding the province of the...
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    Pierre Benoit (novelist) (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    novel Le Soleil de minuit) Le Soleil de minuit, directed by Richard Garrick and Jean Legrand (France, 1926, based on the novel Le Soleil de minuit) The Lady...
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