Félicien Marceau is the pen name of Louis Carette (born 16 September 1913, Kortenberg

Kortenberg

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, Flemish Brabant

Flemish Brabant

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) a French

French language

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 novelist, playwright and essayist originally from Belgium

Belgium

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. He was close to the Hussards

Hussards (literary movement)

The Hussards was a French literary movement in the 1950s which opposed Existentialism and the figure of the politically engaged intellectual as personified by Jean-Paul Sartre.-Origins:...

 right-wing literary movement, itself close to the monarchist .

He received the Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...

 for his book Creezy (ISBN 0714507083) in 1969

1969 in literature

The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...

. On 27 November 1975 he was elected to the Académie française

Académie française

L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

, succeeding Marcel Achard

Marcel Achard

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades...

. In 1974, Goudji

Goudji

Guy Georges Amachoukeli, better known as Goudji is a French sculptor and goldsmith, that was born in Georgia on July 6, 1941, .-Biography:...

created the academician's sword for Félicien Marceau.

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L'Académie française