Jean Marc Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996) was a French essayist, novelist and journalist. Mauriac was born in Paris, the eldest son of author François Mauriac. He was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a film critic and art critic of Le Figaro. He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the film adaptation of his father's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux. He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle. Mauriac was a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Source: Wikipedia (en)