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Nimier was the recognized leader of the Hussards, a literary group which included notably Antoine Blondin, Michel Déon and Jacques Laurent, opposed to existentialism. He was opposed to the figure of the "engaged writer" symbolized by Jean-Paul Sartre .
Roger Nimier, né le 31 octobre 1925 à Paris et mort le 28 septembre 1962 [1] à Garches [2], est un écrivain français. Également journaliste et scénariste , il est considéré comme le chef de file du mouvement littéraire dit des « Hussards ».
Roger Nimier. (1925—1961) Quick Reference. (1925–61). The central figure of the right‐wing Hussards group of French writers, Nimier was important both as a novelist and as a literary journalist. His novels, Les Épées (1948), Le ... From: Nimier, Roger in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French » Subjects: Literature.
Roger Nimier. He was born in 1925, and served in the French Army, specifically in the 2nd Hussard Regiment in the Second World War (Until 1945). He began to write quite early in his life.
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- September 28, 1962
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The Blue Hussar (French: Le hussard bleu) is a 1950 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. Set in Germany in 1945–1946, it tells the story of ten French hussars who operate in the French occupation army right after World War II. The perspective shifts between several different people.
- Hugh Corbett, Roger Nimier
- 1950
A sound British critic has called 28-year-old Roger Nimier "one of the most brilliant writers in France," but there must be a lot of shocked Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At...
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Roger Nimier was born on 31 October 1925 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Éducation sentimentale (1962) and The Nina B. Affair (1961). He died on 28 September 1962 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France.
