The Foundling Boy
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Michel Déon is a member of the Académie Française and the author of more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction. He lives in Ireland with his wife and has many horses.
Julian Evans is a writer and translator from French and German. He has previously translated Michel Déon’s Where Are You Dying Tonight?
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First published in France as Le jeune homme vert by Éditions Gallimard, 1975
Copyright © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1975
English translation copyright © Julian Evans, 2013
First published in Great Britain in 2013
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