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Born in Paris, France, Druon was the son of RussianJewish immigrant Lazare Kessel (1899–1920) and was brought up at La CroixSaintLeufroy in Normandy and educated at the lycée Michelet de Vanves. His father committed suicide in 1920 and his mother remarried in 1926; Maurice subsequently took the name of his adoptive father, the lawyer René Druon (1874–1961).