Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903,
Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a
French intellectual
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,
literary historian,
essayist
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,
novelist
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,
poet
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, and
literary critic. He won the
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in 1963
Works
Essay
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s
* 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 (
Pamphlet)
* Ce que je crois, 1966
Novels
* 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
Theatre
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* Le
Ballet
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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
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