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Apr 25, 1914 16th arrondissement of Paris, Île de France, France Died on 22 Mar 1996 (aged 81)
French writer
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About Claude Mauriac
- Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914, Paris – 22 March 1996) was a French author and journalist, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac. He was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a cinema critic and arts person of Le Figaro.
- He was the author of several novels and essays, and co-scripted the movie adaptation of his father's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux.
- He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle.
- Mauriac was also a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
- Mauriac is perhaps most famous for being Simone de Beauvoir's primary example of 'disarming masculine naïveté" in the introduction to her seminal feminist text, The Second Sex.
- Quoting Mauriac's misogynistic writing, de Beauvoir asserts on Mauriac's behalf that "no one is more arrogant towards women, more aggressive or more disdainful, than a man anxious about his own virility".
