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Biography
Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French novelist. He was the author of forty books, the director of Le Figaro from 1974 to 1979, and the Dean of the Académie française.
Awards & recognition
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour · 2014
- Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand · 2001
- Grand prix Jean-Giono · 1999
- Grand prix RTL-Lire · 1994
- Scanno Prize · 1992
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- Paulée de Meursault Prize · 1979
- Prix Balzac · 1975
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française · 1971
- Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms
- Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
