Claude Mauriac (25 April 1914 – 22 March 1996)[1] was a French author and journalist, born in Paris as the eldest son of author François Mauriac.
Mauriac was the personal secretary of Charles de Gaulle from 1944 to 1949, before becoming a film critic and art critic of Le Figaro.
He also wrote a study of the novelist Marcel Proust, his wife's great-uncle.
Mauriac was a close friend of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
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