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Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist.〔http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390970/Henry-Marie-Joseph-Millon-de-Montherlant〕 He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. == Biography == Born in Paris, a descendant of an aristocratic (yet obscure) Picard family, he was educated at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and the Sainte-Croix boarding school at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Henry's father was a hard-line reactionary (to the extent of despising the post-Dreyfus Affair army as too subservient to the Republic, and refusing to have electricity or the telephone installed in his house). In 1912, he was expelled from the Catholic Sainte-Croix de Neuilly academy for a relationship with a fellow male student, a relationship that he would depict in his 1969 novel ''Les Garçons''. After the deaths of his father and mother in 1914 and 1915, he went to live with his doting grandmother and eccentric uncles. Mobilised in 1916, he was wounded and decorated. Marked by his experience of war, he wrote ''Songe'' ('Dream'), an autobiographic novel, as well as his ''Chant funèbre pour les morts de Verdun'' (''Funeral Chant for the Dead at Verdun''), both exaltations of heroism during the Great War. In the 1920s and 30s de Montherlant achieved critical success with the 1934 novel ''Les Célibataires'', and sold millions of copies of his tetralogy ''Les Jeunes Filles'', written from 1936 through 1939. In these years de Montherlant traveled extensively, mainly to Spain, Italy, and Algeria. During the war he remained in Paris and continued to write plays, poems, essays, and worked as a war correspondent. Some time in 1968, according to one source, de Montherlant was attacked and beaten in the streets of Paris, seriously injured and blinded in one eye;〔 the British writer Peter Quennell, who edited a collection of translations of his works, recalled that de Montherlant attributed the eye injury to "a fall" instead; he also dated the incident to 1968, and mentions that de Montherlant suffered from vertigo. After becoming almost blind in his last years, de Montherlant died from a self-inflicted〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Henry de Montherlant )〕 gunshot wound to the head after swallowing a cyanide capsule in 1972. His standard biography was written by Pierre Sipriot, and published in two volumes (1982 and 1990), revealing the full extent of de Montherlant's sexual habits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry de Montherlant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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