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Pierre Boulle

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born

February 20, 1912 in Avignon, France

died

January 30, 1994

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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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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Books by Pierre Boulle

Average rating: 3.75 · 5,160 ratings · 338 reviews · 41 distinct works

	Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 4,271 ratings — published 1963 — 57 editions	My rating:
	The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 1950 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Garden on the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Other Side of the Coin 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	E=mc2 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Face of a Hero 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Time Out of Mind 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Photographer by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	L'archéologue Et Le Mystère De Néfertiti: Roman 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Whale Of The Victoria Cross 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes 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

tags: apes , books , imitation , language , theme , writing

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