Paris 2017: Cimetière du Montparnasse: #9: Jean Dutourd

Jean Dutourd (1920–2011) was a novelist, non-fiction writer and a member of the Académie française (incidentally replaced by Michael Edwards). His influences include Saint-Simon, Stendhal and Jean Giono, and his principal works are the novels Au bon beurre (1952) (set in the Occupation) and Les Horreurs de l'amour (1963).