Pierre Boulle





Pierre Boulle

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born
February 20, 1912 in Avignon, France

died
January 30, 1994

gender
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Born Pierre-François-Marie-Louis Boulle in Avignon, France, he trained as an engineer. From 1936 to 1939 he worked as a technician on British rubber plantations in Malaya. At the outbreak of World War II Boulle enlisted with the French army in French Indochina, and after German troops occupied France he joined the Free French Mission in Singapore.

He served as a secret agent under the name Peter John Rule and helped the resistance movement in China, Burma and French Indochina. In 1943 he was captured by the Vichy France loyalists on the Mekong River. While a prisoner, he was subjected to severe hardship and forced labor. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Medal of the Resistance.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 5,160 ratings · 338 reviews · 41 distinct works
Planet of the Apes
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 4,271 ratings — published 1963 — 57 editions
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 1950 — 29 editions
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Garden on the Moon
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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Other Side of the Coin
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1979
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E=mc2
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992
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Face of a Hero
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions
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Time Out of Mind
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions
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The Photographer
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1968
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L'archéologue Et Le Mystè...
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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The Whale Of The Victoria C...
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More books by Pierre Boulle…
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”
Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes

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