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 ...
The Academie Francaise want to make changes to the French language that have caused uproar How Maurice Druon would have adored the tohubohu (or should that be tohu-bohu?). Maurice Druon was the writer ...
How Maurice Druon would have adored the tohubohu (or should that be tohu-bohu?). Maurice Druon was the writer and wartime resistant who, as perpetual secretary of the Academie Francaise, lit the ...