What is Jean Giraudoux?
{{Infobox writer | name = Jean Giraudoux | image = Jean Giraudoux 1927.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Portrait of Giraudoux in 1927 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|10|29|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bellac]], [[Haute-Vienne]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|01|31|1882|10|29|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Dramatist | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'',<br>''[[Ondine (play)|Ondine]]'',<br> ''[[Duel of Angels]]'',<br> ''[[The Trojan War Will Not Take Place]]'' | spouse = Suzanne Boland | children = 1 son | awards = | signature = }} '''Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux''' ({{IPA-fr|ʒiʁodu|lang}}; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French [[novelist]], [[essayist]], [[diplomat]] and [[playwright]].<ref>Brockett, Oscar. ''History of the Theatre'' Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1968. p. 621.</ref><ref name=obit>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D1EFF3F5A157B93C3A91789D85F408485F9&scp=10&sq=giraudoux+obituary&st=p New York Times; February 1, 1944] Jean Giraudoux obituary.</ref> ==Theatre works== * ''[[Siegfried (play)|Siegfried]]'' (1928, premiere at the [[Comédie des Champs-Élysées]]) * ''[[Amphitryon 38]]'' (1929 premiere, Comédie des Champs-Élysées) * ''[[Judith (Giraudoux)|Judith]]'' (1931, [[Théâtre Pigalle]]) * ''[[Intermezzo (play)|The Enchanted]]'' (1933, Comédie des Champs-Élysées) * ''[[Tessa (play)|Tessa]]'' (1934, [[Théâtre de l'Athénée]]) * ''[[The Virtuous Island|Supplément au voyage de Cook]]'' (1935, Théâtre de l'Athénée) * ''[[The Trojan War Will Not Take Place]]'' (1935, Théâtre de l'Athénée) * ''[[Electra (Giraudoux)|Electra]]'' (1937, Théâtre de l'Athénée) * ''[[L'Impromptu de Paris]]'' (1937, Théâtre de l'Athénée) * ''[[Song of Songs (Giraudoux)|Song of Songs]]'' (1938, [[Comédie-Française]]) * ''[[Ondine (play)|Ondine]]'' (1939, Théâtre de l'Athénée) * ''[[The Apollo of Bellac]]'' (1942, [[Teatro Municip