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- Birth nameMaurice Samuel Roger Charles Druon
- Maurice Druon was born on April 23, 1918 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Iron King, Vertigine d'amore (1949) and A Matter of Time (1976). He was married to Madeleine Merignac. He died on April 14, 2009 in Paris, France.
- SpouseMadeleine Merignac(September 26, 1968 - April 14, 2009) (his death)
- RelativesJoseph Kessel(Aunt or Uncle)
- His father, Lazare Kessel, actor at the "Comédie-Française", killed himself at the time of Maurice's birth. He learned this when he was eighteen, having been told before that his father had died from the Spanish flu.
- His mother married René Druon from whom he took the name in 1925.
- He was cultural minister in France in 1973-1974.
- He wrote many novels, plays, and essays.
- He and his uncle, Joseph Kessel, adapted a Russian song which became known as the "Chant des Partisans" ("Song of the Partisans"), an anthem of the French Resistance during WWII.
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