One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

OCLC 807008. Giraudoux Jean (1958) Four Plays Adapted by Maurice Valency. With the outbreak of World War I he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.

He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy.