When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

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.