Definition of Jean Giraudoux

1. Noun. French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944).

Exact synonyms: Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Novelist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Giraudoux

Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux (current term)
Jean Harlow
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jean Laffite
Jean Lafitte
Jean Louis Charles Garnier
Jean Luc Godard
Jean Martin Charcot
Jean Monnet
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Paul Marat
Jean Piaget
Jean Racine
Jean Sibelius

Literary usage of Jean Giraudoux

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"By Jean Giraudoux. Paris: Gallimard. (JP Mayer in the New Statesman and Nation, London) Jean Giraudoux, diplomatist and author of a number of brilliant ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations by New York Public Library (1918)
"Jean Giraudoux, translated by Elizabeth S. Sergeant. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. S pl, 3-272 p., 1 1. 8°. ..."

3. Harvard's Military Record in the World War by Frederick S. Mead (1921)
"... Morize and Jean Giraudoux. These were the first French officers to come to this country to give military instruction and their coming was an event of ..."

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