Francis Ambrière

Francis Ambrière (27 September 1907 – 1 July 1998) was a French author who was selected for the Prix Goncourt in 1940, for his book Les Grandes Vacances; the prize was awarded in 1946 because of World War II. He was born in Paris.

Francis Ambrière

27 September 1907
Paris, France

1 July 1998(1998-07-01) (aged 90)

French author

French

Joachim du Bellay, Firmin-Didot et cie, 1930
Estaunié, John Charpentier, Francis Ambrière, Firmin-Didot et cie, 1932
Les grandes vacances, 1939-1945, Les Éditions de la nouvelle France, 1946, (reprint Éditions du Seuil, 1956)
- The long holiday Translator Elaine P. Halperin, Publisher Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1948
Le solitaire de la Cervara, V. Attinger, 1947

Prix Goncourt in 1940 for his book Les Grandes Vacances

Biography[edit]

Francis Ambriere has been recognised for his novel Les Grandes Vacances, which chronicles the lives of French prisoners of war in 1940. He was the author of several Guides bleus for example in Paris in 1949, and then Greece in 1957, or on Italy published in 1960.

Joachim du Bellay, Firmin-Didot et cie, 1930

Estaunié, John Charpentier, Francis Ambrière, Firmin-Didot et cie, 1932

Les grandes vacances, 1939-1945

Le solitaire de la Cervara, V. Attinger, 1947

The exiled, Staples Press, 1951

Le Maroc, Les Documents d'art, 1952

Théâtre et collectivité, Flammarion, 1953

Le Siecle des Valmore, Seuil, 1987

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Mademoiselle Mars et Marie Dorval: au théâtre et dans la vie, Seuil, 1992

Talma, ou l'histoire au théâtre, Madeleine Ambrière, Francis Ambrière, Éditions de Fallois, 2007, 978-2-87706-638-9

Francis Ambrière