Georges Cattaui


Georges Cattaui was a French writer of Egyptian origin. First cousin of Jean de Menasce, he belonged to the Jewish aristocracy of Alexandria, where he spent his first years.

Biography

Born in Paris on 14 September 1896, Felix Georges Cattaui, studied at the Lycée Carnot, and then studied law which opened his diplomatic career. He founded L'Atelier in Cairo and organized the third anniversary of the birth of Molière, then the popular university, a privileged place for French culture in Egypt. A secretary of King Fouad I he wrote the official speeches. He was secretary of the Legations in Prague, Bucharest and London. Between the two world wars, he took courses in theology at the University of Fribourg.
From 1936, he abandoned diplomacy and devoted himself to writing. After 1945, he wrote numerous columns in Le . Naturalized French he died in 1974 in Gland, Switzerland. From Jewish confession he had converted to Catholicism in April 1928.
While pursuing a career as a diplomat, he published several essays and biographies, particularly on Marcel Proust