His novel "Man's Fate" was once scheduled to be filmed by MGM in a
production directed by Fred Zinnemann, but was abruptly canceled.
He was the French Minister of Cultural Affairs from 1/8/59-6/20/69.
His daughter Florence assisted Truffaut on Jules and Jim and Alain Resnais on a number of films, marrying the latter director in 1969, a year after the tensions between her father and the New Wave over Henri Langlois.