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perpetual secretary of the French Academy (1944–1946); president of the Société des gens de lettres (1936–1936); Member of the Académie française (1935–1966)."},{"q":"Where did Georges Duhamel study?","a":"Georges Duhamel was educated at Lycée Buffon."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"},{"name":"Maurice Druon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/maurice-druon"},{"name":"Jean Mistler","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jean-mistler"},{"name":"Maurice Genevoix","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/maurice-genevoix"},{"name":"Henri de Bornier","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/henri-de-bornier"},{"name":"Marcel Prévost","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/marcel-prevost"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/georges-duhamel-d331cef19f.jpg","width":434,"height":610,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Anonymous Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Duhamel_1930.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Georges Duhamel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Duhamel_(author)","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q20733","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20733","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Georges Duhamel 1930.jpg by Anonymous Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Duhamel_1930.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Georges Duhamel, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Georges Duhamel 1930.jpg — Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Georges Duhamel\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/georges-duhamel. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-02T08:05:35Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/georges-duhamel","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/georges-duhamel","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/georges-duhamel?lang=ne"}}