Editing André Malraux (section)

==Early years==
Malraux was born in Paris in 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux (1875–1930) and Berthe Félicie Lamy (1877–1932). His parents separated in 1905 and eventually divorced. There are suggestions that Malraux's paternal grandfather committed suicide in 1909.<ref name=MalrauxWebsite>[http://www.malraux.org/index.php/biographie/biodetaillee.html "Biographie détaillée"] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110505042043/http://www.malraux.org/index.php/biographie/biodetaillee.html |date= 5 May 2011}}, André Malraux Website, accessed 3 September 2010</ref>

Malraux was raised by his mother, his maternal aunt Marie Lamy and his maternal grandmother, Adrienne Lamy (née Romagna), who had a grocery store in the small town of [[Bondy]] (Seine-Saint-Denis).<ref name=MalrauxWebsite/><ref>Cate, p. 4</ref> His father, a stockbroker, died by suicide in 1930 after the international [[Stock market crash| crash of the stock market]] and onset of the [[Great Depression]].<ref>Cate, p. 153</ref> 

From his childhood, associates noticed that André had marked nervousness and motor and vocal tics. The recent biographer Olivier Todd, who published a book on Malraux in 2005, suggests that he had [[Tourette syndrome]], although that has not been confirmed.<ref name=Knorr>{{cite news | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/style/31iht-malraux_ed3_.html?pagewanted=1| title= Andre Malraux, the Great Pretender| author= Katherine Knorr | date= 31 May 2001| work= The New York Times}}</ref> The young Malraux left formal education early, but he followed his curiosity through the booksellers and museums in Paris, and explored the city's rich libraries as well.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
[[File:Banteay Srei - Cambodia.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Banteay Srei]] temple was the subject of a celebrated case of [[art theft]] when André Malraux stole four images of [[devata]]s in 1923 (he was soon arrested and the figures returned).]] 
[[File:André Malraux 1933.jpg|thumb|left|André Malraux in 1933]]