5/26/2023 0 Comments The Lion by Joseph Kessel![]() ![]() He is buried in Paris in the Cimetière du Montparnasse. Kessel was elected to the Académie française in 1962 and died on 23 July 1979 in Avernes, Val-d'Oise of a ruptured aneurysm. The song became one of the anthems of Free French Forces during the Second World War. In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). He was also an aviator during the Second World War, in the Free French Groupe de Bombardement n° 1/20 "Lorraine" ( 342 Squadron RAF) with RAF Bomber Command, with Romain Gary, who was also a talented French novelist. He studied in lycée Masséna, Nice and lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris and took part in the First World War as an aviator. ![]() From 1905 to 1908, Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France in 1908. ![]() Kessel was born to a Jewish family in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Litvak physician. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. ![]()
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