Edmond Jaloux

1878 - 1949

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movement: Club des longues moustaches

country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Lycée Thiers

occupation: writer, literary critic, novelist

award received: Prix Femina, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Louis Barthou Prize

position held: seat 33 of the Académie française

Edmond Jaloux (19 June 1878, Marseille – 22 August 1949, Lutry) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers. In 1936 he joined the Académie française. He died in Switzerland in 1949. Source: Wikipedia (en)