Pierre Roger Peyrefitte (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe pɛʁfit]; 17 August 1907 – 5 November 2000) was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and...

Les amitiés particulières is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best-known work today, which won the Prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical...

July 1951 – 16 December 2000) was the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte, their relationship being a subject of several of the latter's works...

The Exile of Capri is a 1959 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, based on the lives of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and Nino Cesarini. The book starts...

and poet. His life forms the basis of a fictionalised 1959 novel by Roger Peyrefitte entitled The Exile of Capri (L'exilé de Capri). In 1903, a scandal...

makes an even briefer appearance in Les Conquêtes d'Alexandre by Roger Peyrefitte. Peyrefitte, unlike Mary Renault, has Bagoas riding to battle by the side...

particulières (English: Special Friendships) is a 1964 film adaptation of the Roger Peyrefitte novel of the same name, directed by Jean Delannoy. It was released...

1998, p. 93; Natter & Weiermair 2001, p. 107; Zannier 2008, p. 168. Peyrefitte, Roger 'Excerpts from the memories of Baron Wilhelm v. gloed.' In: Eldon...

Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. His life was novelized by the French writer Roger Peyrefitte in his work The Exile of Capri (L'exilé de Capri) in 1959. Cesarini...

lover and then adopted son of diplomat and controversial gay novelist Roger Peyrefitte. She married him on 13 March 1979, while on a trip to the United States...

the 1949 short story La maîtresse de piano (The Piano Teacher) by Roger Peyrefitte and set in Venice under fascism, its themes include illicit sex, betrayal...

Black Nobles resented these changes. According to diplomat and author Roger Peyrefitte, it was members of the Black Nobility who first told him of the Pope's...

Zeichnungen-Drawings-Dessins 1927–1990. Bonn: Marco Edition ISBN 3-921754-37-2 Peyrefitte, Roger (1980). Hommage an Arno Breker. Paris: Marco-Edition. ISBN 3921754097...

amitiés particulières, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Roger Peyrefitte, as Alexandre Motier. Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) Les amitiés...

against his execution. Mauriac also had a bitter public dispute with Roger Peyrefitte, who criticised the Vatican in books such as Les Clés de saint Pierre...

position at the Académie Française. Some time in 1968, according to Roger Peyrefitte, outside a movie theatre in Paris, 72-year-old Montherlant was attacked...

and myrtle in honor of Venus The house was described in detail by Roger Peyrefitte in his novel The Exile of Capri (1959), a fictionalized account of...

Company, New York 1933. Chapter about Dottor Salvatore Lo Bianco. Roger Peyrefitte, Les amours singulières, Paris 1949; L' exilé de Capri, Flammarion...

of homosexuality, a role analogous to that played by the works of Roger Peyrefitte in France. Despite somewhat dramatic decorations [...] it [the story]...

attending a session of the Chambre de l'Édit there. French writer Roger Peyrefitte was born into a wealthy family of Castres in 1907. Former French footballer...

the reason behind this decline in health has been proposed by author Roger Peyrefitte, who notes that Cocteau had been devastated by a breach with his longtime...

by the French historian Régine Pernoud. His translations of work by Roger Peyrefitte and Zoé Oldenbourg were also notable, as were his translations of a...

Paris in 1954 by André Baudry, with assistance from Jean Cocteau and Roger Peyrefitte As a result, Baudry was prosecuted and fined for 'indecent morals'...

change of the Gospel reading about the circumcision of the child Jesus. Roger Peyrefitte, in his novel Les Clés de Sainte Pierre (1955), written using information...

exports, so the foreign market was practically closed at the time. When Roger Peyrefitte visited Taormina in the 1940s, he mentioned Pancrazio Buciunì in his...

homosexual activity, and masturbation are sinful acts. In response, Roger Peyrefitte, who had already written in two of his books that Paul VI had a longtime...

plomb, 46 x 31 cm, 1944 [frontispice] Mademoiselle de Murville de Roger Peyrefitte, éditions Jean Vigneau, 1947 Le Pot ancien, huile, 81 x 65 cm, s.d...

d'Argens de Villèle (1951–2000), the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte Alain Decaux (1925–2016), French historian Alain Defossé (1957–2017)...

Charles Perrault, Mother Goose Tales Georges Perec Saint-John Perse Roger Peyrefitte Jean Piaget, psychologist Jean Piat Gisèle Pineau Christine de Pizan...

(1897–1954), modern sculptor and French Résistance fighter during WWII. Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000) writer Charles Trenet (1913–2001), singer and poet born...