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...

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...

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...

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

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...

sequel Funeral Games. He appears in Les Conquêtes d'Alexandre by Roger Peyrefitte. Peyrefitte's Bagoas rides to battle by the side of Darius. He is played by...

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...

1963 Jean Marais, 1963 Henry de Montherlant, 1964 Marcel Pagnol, 1964 Roger Peyrefitte, 1964 Jeanne Castel, 1964 Paul Morand, 1965 Jacques Benoist-Méchin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

translations of Straton's 'Book 12' were later published by poets such as Roger Peyrefitte and Salvatore Quasimodo. Straton's surviving anthology of poems was...

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

sympathizer. He obtained the Lenin Peace Prize in 1979. This made Roger Peyrefitte say jokingly: "Hervé Bazin had two prizes which fitted each other:...

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...

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

books have included: Prix Renaudot: 1944: Les amitiés particulières (Roger Peyrefitte); 1955: Le Moissonneur d'épines (Georges Govy); 1970: Isabelle ou l'arrière-saison...

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...