We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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.