François-Olivier Rousseau
Writing
- Born
- September 20, 1947 (age 79) · Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer.
A young literary critic at Le Matin de Paris at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately and collected several literary prizes. He then left Paris for the Isle of Man where he settled in the capital, Douglas, a town of barely more than 20,000 inhabitants. He devotes himself only to the writing between two voyages.
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French detesting France, a specialist in the period from Napoleon III to the First World War (which he considers to be "an accident that is incomprehensible to me, I try to understand what could have provoked this manifestation of the death instinct of the West and I like to dream what would have been this century without the war"), he particularly likes to depict with many details the lives of artists going through this era.
The Éditions du Seuil published a novelization of the film he cowrote, Children of the Century, devoted to the love affair between George Sand and Alfred de Musset.
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Known for
The Princess of Montpensier
November 3, 2010
Nathalie...
January 7, 2004
Absolutely Fabulous
August 29, 2001
The Children of the Century
September 12, 1999
Dark Night, October 17, 1961
June 7, 2005
Change My Life
November 28, 2001
Je suis né à 17 ans
October 25, 2023
Lovers of the Nile
January 16, 2002
Marie-Octobre
October 15, 2008
Belinda and Me
March 15, 2014
Des gens si bien élevés
November 17, 1997
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- 2023Je suis né à 17 ans Screenplay
- 2014Belinda and Me Writer
- 2010The Princess of Montpensier Screenplay
- 2008Marie-Octobre Writer
- 2005Dark Night, October 17, 1961 Writer
- 2004Nathalie... Writer
- 2002Lovers of the Nile Writer, Dialogue
- 2001Change My Life Writer
- 2001Absolutely Fabulous Scenario Writer
- 1999The Children of the Century