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Marcel Brion


Born
in Marseille, France
November 21, 1895

Died
October 23, 1984

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, History


Marcel Brion (1895, Marseille - 1984, Paris) was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian.

The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his secondary education in Champittet, Switzerland, he studied law at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence. Counsel to the bar of Marseille between 1920 and 1924, he abandoned his legal career to turn to literature.

Brion wrote nearly a hundred books in his career, ranging from historical biography to examinations of Italian and German art, and turning later in life to novels. His most famous collection of stories is the 1942 Les Escales de la Haute Nuit (The Shore Leaves Of The Deepest Night). An essay of Brion appears in Our Exagminat ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 720 ratings · 83 reviews · 232 distinct works • Similar authors
Waystations of the Deep Night
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4.28 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1942 — 8 editions
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MAQUIAVELO
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VIDA DE ATILA
3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1959 — 7 editions
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Mozart
3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1982 — 11 editions
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Leonardo Da Vinci: la encar...
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Michelangelo
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1939 — 25 editions
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The Medici: a great Florent...
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La ville de sable
3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions
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Les Borgia: Le Pape Et Le P...
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Hunların Hayatı
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Series by Marcel Brion

L'Allemagne romantique, Tome 1 L'Allemagne Romantique, Tome 2 L'Allemagne romantique, Tome 3
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