- Birthday
- 1913-01-13
- Deathday
- 1979-08-12
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
Gilbert Cesbron
WritingBiography
Gilbert Cesbron (13 January 1913, Paris – 12 August 1979, Paris) was a French novelist. Gilbert Cesbron (13 January 1913, Paris – 12 August 1979, Paris) was a French novelist. Born in Paris, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet. In 1944 he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris ("The Innocent of Paris"), in Switzerland. He first achieved wide public acclaim with the publication of Notre prison est un royaume ("Our Prison is a Kingdom") in 1948 and Il est minuit, docteur Schweitzer ("It is midnight, Doctor Schweitzer") in 1950. In his works Cesbron tended to illust...
