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Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (French: [mɔ̃tɛʁlɑ̃]; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.
Henry Millon de Montherlant, né le 20 avril 1895 à Paris et mort le 21 septembre 1972 dans la même ville, est un romancier, essayiste et dramaturge français.
Henry de Montherlant (born April 20, 1895, Paris, France—died Sept. 21, 1972, Paris) was a French novelist and dramatist whose stylistically concise works reflect his own egocentric and autocratic personality. Montherlant was born into a noble Roman Catholic family of Catalan origin.
Jan 15, 2016 · Henry de Montherlant began writing in earnest after he came home wounded from the Great War, a decorated veteran. France in the 1930s made him a literary star, awarding him the Grand Prix —yet he hated the Third Republic.
Écrivain sans cesse en quête de perfection esthétique, d’un style brillant et aéré, Henry de Montherlant est le créateur d’une œuvre où se font écho en s’opposant la morale chrétienne et la morale profane, le culte de l’héroïsme et celui de l’hédonisme.
French novelist and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1960. Montherlant was born in Paris of aristocratic Catholic parents. He saw active service in the latter half of World War I, which inspired the semiautobiographical novel Le Songe (1922).
Biography. Henry de Montherlant was born in Paris in 1895, to an old-established French family. He didn’t do particularly well at his studies, failing his first year of law. His father died in 1914, his mother in 1915 and he lived with his grandmother till her death in 1923.
