François Aman-Jean | |
Birth Date: | 14 September 1894 |
Birth Place: | 4th arrondissement of Paris |
Death Date: | 2 April 1986 |
Death Place: | Chateau-Thierry |
Nationality: | French |
Occupation: | Writer, playwright |
François Aman-Jean, real name François Henri Amand Jean, (14 Septembre 1894[1] – 2 April 1986) was a French writer and playwright.
The son of the painter Edmond Aman-Jean, on 4 December 1916 in Paris he married Charlotte Simon, the daughter of the painter Lucien Simon, herself a painter, known under the name Charlotte Aman-Jean.
A captain in the French army, Aman-Jean served in Romania in 1918[2]
MD, surgeon by profession, he had a try at the Theater in 1949, but the creation of Jeanne la Folle by the Comédie-Française at the Théâtre de l'Odéon did not meet the expected success. However, he persevered with a one-act play at the Théâtre des Noctambules, four years later.
The sculptor Philippe Besnard made a bronze bust of him, displayed in 1913 at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-arts (SNBA).