by Jean d'Ormesson · LE GRAND LIVRE DU MOIS · tapa dura · ISBN 9782702838693
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«Le rapport Gabriel» is the novel by Jean d'Ormesson, published by Le Grand Livre du Mois in hardback (430 pages, in French).
The book is presented as the plea the author writes in the company of the angel Gabriel, sent to Earth to calm God's wrath against humanity. On that basis, d'Ormesson combines fiction and memory: his childhood, family life, encounters with historical figures, and his career in twentieth-century French culture.
Novel published in 1999, winner of the Grand prix Jean-Giono; the cover presents Jean d'Ormesson as a member of the Académie française and the subtitle «roman».
For readers of contemporary French literature and of narrative that mixes autobiography, fiction, and reflection on the twentieth century.
Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books, was the director of Le Figaro from 1974 to 1977, as well as the dean of the Académie Française, to which he was elected in 1973, until his death, in addition to his service as president of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences within UNESCO (1992–1997). A major public figure in France, known for his art de la conversation, Jean d'Ormesson was saluted as "the best of the French spirit" by President Emmanuel Macron upon his death.
