Nationality French Parents Edmond Aman-Jean | Occupation Writer, playwright | |
Born 14 September 1894 4th arrondissement of Paris Died 2 April 1986, Château-Thierry, France | ||
François Aman-Jean, real name François Henri Amand Jean, (14 Septembre 1894 – 2 April 1986) was a French writer and playwright.
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Biography
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
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).