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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux ( October 29 , 1882 - January 31 , 1944 ) was a French dramatist who wrote internationally acclaimed plays. He was born in Bellac , Haute-Vienne , France . Giraudoux was also a prose writer and served France as a diplomat and government official. In his youth he traveled abroad, visiting Germany, Italy, the Balkans, Canada, and the United States, where he spent a year (1906-07) as an instructor at Harvard University . Returning to France, he served in World War I , was twice wounded, and became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion Of Honor . A meeting with Louis Jouvet , in 1928, stimulated his writing. At the start of World War II he served as Minister of Information under Premier Edouard Daladier . He is buried in the Cimetière De Passy , Paris, France. WORKS
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