Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle was born in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on February 20th, 1912 and is the Novelist. At the age of 81, Pierre Boulle biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Not to be confused with the also writer Pierre Boileau. Also not to be confused with the composer Pierre Boulez.Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour.
He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller.
The film, named The Bridge on the River Kwai, by David Lean won seven Oscars, and Boulle was credited with writing the screenplay, because its two actual screenwriters had been blacklisted.His science-fiction novel Planet of the Apes, in which intelligent apes gain mastery over humans, was adapted into a series of nine award-winning films that spawned magazine and TV versions and popular themed toys.
Life and career
Pierre Boulle, a born in Avignon, France, was baptized and raised as a Catholic, but later in life he became an agnostic. He studied at the prestigious École supérieure d'électricité (Supélec), where he obtained his engineer's degree in 1933. He worked as a technician on British rubber plantations in Malaya from 1936 to 1939. While there, he encountered a Frenchwoman who was estranged from her husband. She was supposed to be the love of his life, to whom he would write tender love letters. She later decided to return to her husband, a French Indochina official. During World War II, she and her husband were able to Malaya, but one of her children died in the process. Boulle would return to her after the war, and the two forged a platonic relationship.
Boulle was enlisted with the French army in Indochina during World War II. After German troops occupied France, he joined the Free French Mission in Singapore. During the war, he was a servant of Charles de Gaulle.
Boulle served as a undercover agent under the name Peter John Rule, and he was instrumental in the resistance campaign in China, Burma, and French Indochina. On the Mekong River in 1943, he was captured by Vichy France loyalists and was subjected to brutal poverty and slave labour. He was later made a chevalier of Légion d'Honneur and adorned with the Croix de Guerre and Médaille de la Résistance. In the non-fiction My Own River Kwai, he related to his war experiences. He'll keep in touch with his war comrades for the remainder of his life.
Boulle returned to work for a few years in the rubber industry after the war, but he returned to Paris in 1949 to write. He lived in a hotel until his recently widowed sister, Madeleine Perezset, allowing him to move to her large apartment in Paris, although he was too poor to afford his own flat. She had a son, Françoise, who Pierre helped raise, but no plans for him to officially adopt the child were fulfilled.