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Pierre Daninos
Pierre Daninos (26 May 1913, Paris – 7 January 2005, Paris) was a French writer and humorist.
Life.
Daninos wrote "Les carnets du Major Thompson", which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels. The books in the series pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France, and were witty collections of comparisons between French and British society. Daninos is also the author of "Un Certain Monsieur Blot", a critique of French
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