Few people can have packed so much into 90 years as the French novelist Maurice Druon. As a young man, he was a follower of Charles de Gaulle; in his old age, he was a friend of Vladimir Putin. He was ...

Maurice Druon, co-writer of one of France's most patriotic anthems during World War II, who went on to write novels and serve his country as minister of culture and an official arbiter on language ...

Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999. Born in Paris, ...

AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute Monday to the late French writer and Resistance hero Maurice Druon, saying his life testified to the "greatness of the human will when it stands up to ...

MAURICE DRUON, who has died a few days sort of his 91st birthday, was a second World War hero and co-author of The Partisans' … MAURICE DRUON, who has died a few days sort of his 91st birthday, was a ...

Paris. French author Maurice Druon, a fighter for France’s World War II resistance movement and writer of one of its anthems, has died. He was 90. President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed Druon on Tuesday as ...

AFP - Maurice Druon, the prominent novelist and member of the French Academy, the pre-eminent body on the French language, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, the academy said. Druon died at his home, ...

Maurice Druon, who has died aged 90, became a hero of the Resistance by writing the song which was adopted as France's anthem of anti-Nazi defiance; after the war he was one his country's most eminent ...