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3 unusual facts about Roger Martin du Gard


Game of the Goose

In Roger Martin du Gard's novel The Thibaults, Monsieur Chasle, the proprietor of a store that markets various inventions, mentions that one of his designers has created a portable jeu de l'Oie des Alliés imprinted with scenes from the Battle of the Marne, Douaumont, and other battles of World War I.

Martin Dugard

Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.



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