Jacques de Bourbon-Busset

1912 - 2001

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure

award received: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Great Silver Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria, Grand prix catholique de littérature, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Commander of the Order of Leopold, Marcel Proust Prize, Commander of the Legion of Honour, National Order of Merit, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Order of Academic Palms, Croix de Guerre

position held: president, Mayor of Ballancourt-sur-Essonne, seat 34 of the Académie française

Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset (27 April 1912, Paris – 7 May 2001, Paris) was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset. Source: Wikipedia (en)