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Andre Malraux Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Nov 3, 1901
  • Died: Nov 23, 1976

André Malraux DSO was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.