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    Pierre Roger Peyrefitte (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe pɛʁfit]; 17 August 1907 – 5 November 2000) was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and...
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  • Les amitiés particulières is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best-known work today, which won the Prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical...
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  • July 1951 – 16 December 2000) was the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte, their relationship being a subject of several of the latter's works...
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  • particulières (English: Special Friendships) is a 1964 film adaptation of the Roger Peyrefitte novel of the same name, directed by Jean Delannoy. It was released...
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  • amitiés particulières, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Roger Peyrefitte, as Alexandre Motier. Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) Les amitiés...
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    and poet. His life forms the basis of a fictionalised 1959 novel by Roger Peyrefitte entitled The Exile of Capri (L'exilé de Capri). In 1903, a scandal...
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    The Exile of Capri is a 1959 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, based on the lives of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and Nino Cesarini. The book starts...
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    makes an even briefer appearance in Les Conquêtes d'Alexandre by Roger Peyrefitte. Peyrefitte, unlike Mary Renault, has Bagoas riding to battle by the side...
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    1998, p. 93; Natter & Weiermair 2001, p. 107; Zannier 2008, p. 168. Peyrefitte, Roger 'Excerpts from the memories of Baron Wilhelm v. gloed.' In: Eldon...
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    lover and then adopted son of diplomat and controversial gay novelist Roger Peyrefitte. She married him on 13 March 1979, while on a trip to the United States...
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