Birth date
23/04/1918
Biography
Maurice Druon was a French resistance fighter against the Nazis, a historian, a member of the French academy and a knight of the British Empire. Druon also served as Perennial Secretary of the French Academy and as Minister of Cultural Affairs from 1973–1974.
Note
See http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/05/maurice-druon-george-rr-martin