André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author (died 1976)

André Malraux

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first…