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Author, Journalist
Born Rolland Maurice LECAVELÉ
French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt
Born on June 15, 1885 in Amiens, France , France
Died on March 18, 1973 in Paris, France
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A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses ("Les croix de bois"), a moving study of World War I, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English in 1921).
... Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.
A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses ("Les croix de bois"), a moving study of World War I, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English in 1921).
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