Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a French

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. He won the Prix Ève Delacroix in 1963

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* Destins de la personne, 1935 * L'Église et la Révolution sociale, 1938 * L'homme en procès: Malraux, Sartre, Camus, Saint-Exupéry (1950) * L'Europe a-t-elle une conscience ?, 1953 * Contre la torture, 1957 (

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) * Ce que je crois, 1966

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* Les Valentin, 1931 * L'Affût, 1946 * Les Raisins verts, 1950 * Celle qui est née un dimanche, 1952 * Les Hommes ne veulent pas mourir, 1953 * Portrait d'un officier, 1958 * Le Somnambule, 1960 * Histoire d'un bonheur, 1965 * Pour un garçon de vingt ans, 1967 * Questions aux savants, 1969 * La Sagesse du soir, 1971 * L'Homme et sa Vérité, 1972

Literary criticism

* Georges Duhamel ou le Bourgeois sauvé, 1947 * Mauriac par lui-même, 1953 * Histoire de la Littérature française du XXe siècle, 1956 * Théâtre et Destin, 1959 * Présence de Camus, 1961 * Le Domaine héroïque des lettres françaises, 1963

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de Modène, 1968 1903 births 1972 deaths People from Charente-Maritime French literary historians French literary critics Members of the Académie Française 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French poets 20th-century French historians French male essayists French male poets French male novelists 20th-century French essayists 20th-century French male writers {{France-writer-stub

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Literary criticism

Theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

Essay An essay ( ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a Letter (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a s ...
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Novel A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...
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