Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. - Francois Mauriac

François Mauriac (11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French author, member of the Académie française(from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.