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Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869 into a middle-class Protestant family. His father Jean Paul Guillaume Gide was a professor of law at University of Paris; he died in 1880, when the boy was eleven years old. His mother was Juliette Maria Rondeaux. His uncle was political economist Charles Gide.
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Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
André Gide (born Nov. 22, 1869, Paris, France—died Feb. 19, 1951, Paris) was a French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Heritage and youth Gide was the only child of Paul Gide and his wife, Juliette Rondeaux.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide was born in Paris into a middle class Protestant family.
André Gide (1869-1951) came from a family of Huguenots and recent converts to Catholicism. As a child he was often ill and his education at the École Alsacienne was interrupted by long stays in the South, where he was instructed by private tutors.
Jul 30, 2021 · Gide grew up in Normandy and started writing from an early age. At the age of twenty one, he published his first novel, The Notebooks of André Walter. ‘We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see’ André Gide.
May 21, 2018 · André Gide was born in Paris on Nov. 22, 1869, to Paul Gide, a professor of law at the Sorbonne, and his wife, Juliette, both of the Protestant upper middle class. After the death of his father when André was 11, the boy was dominated by his mother's love and grew up in a largely feminine environment.
