Prix Richelieu

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The Prix Richelieu is a French literary award that rewards a journalist who "testified by the quality of his own language, his concern to defend the French language". It is awarded annually, under the sponsorship of the association Défense de la langue française and the Éditions Larousse.

History

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This prize was created in 1992 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the "Cercle de presse Richelieu".

The Cercle de presse Richelieu, created in 1952 by Paul Camus, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains and Jean Cocteau, aims to preserve and expand the linguistic and cultural heritage and to maintain the quality and evolution of the French language in the modern world. It is always chaired by an academician: Léon Bérard, Maurice Genevoix, Jean Mistler, Jean Dutourd, Angelo Rinaldi and Philippe Beaussant.

Laureates

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