Jean Anouilh

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist best known for his play Antigone, an adaptation of a Sophocles drama to attack Pétain's Vichy government. Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and had Basque ancestry. His father was a tailor and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist who supplemented the family's meager income by playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon. He attended école primaire supérieure where he received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, later a major French director, was a pupil there at the same time and recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure who hardly noticed a boy some two years younger than himself