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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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Birth: | 26th July, 1885 |
Death: | 9th October, 1967 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
André Maurois was a French author. She educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. He died in 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories. He is buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.
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