Editing Jean Giraudoux (section)

==Biography==
Giraudoux was born in [[Bellac]], [[Haute-Vienne]], where his father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the [[Minister of Transport (France)|Ministry of Transport]].  Giraudoux studied at the [[Lycée Lakanal]] in [[Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine|Sceaux]] and upon graduation traveled extensively in Europe.  After his return to France in 1910, he accepted a position with the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (France)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].  With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime [[Légion d'honneur|Legion of Honour]].<ref>Fowlie, Wallace. ''Jean Giraudoux'' in Gassner, John and Edward Quinn ed. ''The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama.'' New York, Thomas Crowell. 1969. p. 359.</ref>

He married in 1918 and in the subsequent inter-war period produced the majority of his writing.  He first achieved literary success through his novels, notably ''[[Siegfried et le Limousin]]'' (1922) and ''Eglantine'' (1927).  An ongoing collaboration with actor and theater director [[Louis Jouvet]], beginning in 1928 with Jouvet's radical streamlining of ''Siegfried'' for the stage, stimulated his writing.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/234192/Jean-Giraudoux |title=Encyclopædia Britannica Online: "Jean Giraudoux" |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |date=2013-11-06 |access-date=2014-06-03}}</ref> But it is his plays that gained him international renown.  He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by [[Christopher Fry]] (''[[The Trojan War Will Not Take Place|Tiger at the Gates]]'') and [[Maurice Valency]] (''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'', ''[[Ondine (play)|Ondine]]'', ''[[The Enchanted (play)|The Enchanted]]'', ''[[The Apollo of Bellac]]'').

Giraudoux served as a juror with [[Florence Meyer Blumenthal]] in awarding the [[Prix Blumenthal]], a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.<ref name="FMBlumenthal">{{cite web
  | title = Florence Meyer Blumenthal
  | publisher = Jewish Women's Archive, Michele Siegel 
  | url = http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/blumenthal-florence-meyer}}</ref> In politics he was affiliated with the [[Radical Party (France)|Radical Party]], served in the cabinet of [[Édouard Herriot]] in 1932, and was appointed as Minister of Information by [[Édouard Daladier]] in 1939.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Body |first1=Jacques |title=Jean Giraudoux: The Legend and the Secret |date=1991 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |page=56}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ganz |first1=Arthur |title=Human and Suprahuman: Ambiguity in the Tragic World of Jean Giraudoux |journal=PMLA |date=1972 |volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=284–294|doi=10.2307/460883 |jstor=460883 |s2cid=171034086 }}</ref>

He is buried in the [[Cimetière de Passy]] in Paris.<ref name=obit>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D1EFF3F5A157B93C3A91789D85F408485F9&scp=10&sq=giraudoux+obituary&st=p New York Times; February 1, 1944] Jean Giraudoux obituary.</ref>