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Henry de Montherlant (April 20, 1896 – September 21, 1972) was a French writer of essays and novels.

His early successes were works such as the tetralogy Les jeunes filles (1936–1939) and Les célibataires (1934). At this time he did a lot of travelling, mainly to Spain, Italy, and Algeria. He also wrote for the theatre, especially after World War II, writing plays such as La reine morte (1934) and Pasiphaë (1949). In his novels, in particular, he liked to portray heroic and morally perfect characters.

Montherlant had volunteered for limited military service in the final two years of World War I. With the help of his maternal grandmother, he unsuccessfully pursued military decoration, particularly the Croix de Guerre. He went on to publish Le solstice de Juin in 1941 -- an essay in which he expressed his admiration for the German army and claimed that France was justly defeated and conquered in World War II.

Montherlant mostly hid his pederastic tendencies during his lifetime.[1] In 1912, he had been expelled from the prestigious Sainte-Croix de Neuilly school for a relationship with a younger pupil. His novel Les garçons (1969) and his correspondence with Roger Peyrefitte (author of Les amitiés particulières (1943), also about homosexual relationships between boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school), are the main testaments to this side of his character.

Between 1960 and 1972, Montherlant was a member of the Académie française. According to Peyrefitte, he was beaten up by some youths which caused a serious injury to his eye. He was going blind on account of that and he committed suicide in 1972, by swallowing a cyanide pill and shooting himself in the head.

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