Maurice Dryon Biography

The father of the future writer - actor Lazar Kessel, was a native of Orenburg. In the year, he and his family left Russia and moved to Nice, where he played under the acting pseudonym Siber and committed suicide at the age of 21. Maurice took the surname of his stepfather R. In addition to Russia, his family roots go to Languedok, Flanders and Brazil. Children's years of Druon took place in Normandy.

He studied at the Lyceum Michel. He began to publish at the age of eighteen years, made reviews in literary magazines. In years he studied at the School of Political Sciences in Paris, in the year - at the Samyur school. Dryon gravitated to the naturalism of the novel "Fiery Cloud", during the Second World War he was an officer of the cavalry. He took part in the resistance movement, and in the year Druon through Spain and Portugal makes his way to London, where he joins the ranks of "free France." In the year, together with Uncle Joseph Kessel, he wrote "Partisan songs." The political credo of the Druon is journalistic in the "letters of the European", which claims: either the elite will "save" after the war Western Europe on the routes of the Federation and technological progress, or the peoples will "destroy" it in the civil war.

Until the end of the war, Druon was a military correspondent, and since the year he has been devoting himself entirely to a literary career.

His military story "The Last Brigade" comes out. In the year, Maurice Dryon publishes the first novel by the trilogy "The Powerful of this world", which brought him the Goncorov Prize; The second and third came out in the years. The trilogy realistically recreated the era between the two wars, the history of the moral and political degradation of the ruling caste, which led France to the Munich agreement and the national disaster of the year.

The pen of Maurice Druon also belongs to the aphoristic "notes", the naturalistic novel "The Slue Exercise of Genesis", the mythological dilogy "Memoirs of Zeus"; the book Maxim “Power”, a cycle of stories, “the happiness of some world glory, however, he was brought by the action -packed historical novels, which made up the seven -volume cycle“ Damned Kings ”in December of the year, Maurice Dryon was elected a member of the French Academy.

In the twentieths, the writer was actively engaged in political activities - he served as the Minister of Culture, was a deputy of the European parliament Assembly, held the post of president of the Association of Laureates of the Goncur Prize. His merits to the Motherland were marked by several French awards, including the Great Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

In July, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, Maurice Dryon, was awarded the Order "For great contribution to the development and strengthening of cultural ties between Russia and France" In January of the year, Maurice Druon visited the residence of Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogarsky. Putin and Dryon talked for several hours and talked not only about literature, but also about history and politics.

In addition, Putin and Dryon exchanged literary gifts. Vladimir Vladimirovich gave the writer a collection of books about Russian folk crafts, and Dryon presented the third president with a three -volume edition of his works, for the presentation of which he came to Russia. A month later, in February, the former head of the Russian state paid a response to the writer.

They met in Paris during the visit by the third president of the Russian Federation of the Institute of France, and the next day Vladimir Putin visited the famous French writer Maurice Druon in his suburban estate. In the same year, Maurice Dryon visited the Orenburg steppes. The writer gave the fund his memoirs and the biography of Joseph Kassel, which led to the idea of ​​combining fragments of these works.

In the year, the writer became a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The writer Maurice Druon called Putin the “main Russian friend” and said, among other things, I was sure that after the addition of the presidential powers you will become the prime minister, lead the government, you will not change the constitution and continue to work as the Government of the Government.

President Nicolas Sarcosi, commenting on the sad news, said that France said with the end Lost a great man.