François de Roux (7 March 1897 – 17 July 1954) was a French writer, winner of the 1935 Prix Renaudot.
In 1935 he published Jours sans gloire [fr] at Éditions Gallimard for which he obtained the Prix Renaudot on 5 December 1935.
On 15 December 1935, at a dinner at Drouant's house gathering the ten winners of the Renaudot Prize since 1926 (Charles Braibant, Philippe Hériat, Louis-Ferdinand Céline...), de Roux put forward the idea of publishing a collection of ten short stories by the winners, presented by each of the jurors.
For Brune, it narrowly missed the 1938 Prix Goncourt, defeated in the fifth round by L'Araigne [fr] by Henri Troyat thanks to the double vote of the president of the jury, J.-H. Rosny aîné.
[2] The Éditions Robert Laffont succeeded in attracting François de Roux with Amours perdues in 1942 and L'Ombrageuse (in 1942 too).