- Julien Benda was born on December 26, 1867 in Paris, France. He was married to Micia Lebas. He died on June 7, 1956 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- SpouseMicia Lebas(October 2, 1950 - June 7, 1956) (his death)
- Benda is now best remembered for his short 1927 book La Trahison des Clercs, a work of considerable influence. It was translated into English in 1928 by Richard Aldington; the U.S. edition was titled The Treason of the Intellectuals, while the British edition was titled The Great Betrayal. Aldington's translation was republished in 2006 as The Treason of the Intellectuals, with a new introduction by Roger Kimball. Benda's word "clercs" was borrowed by Anne Appelbaum in her 2020 book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
- He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
- He wrote for La Revue Blanche from 1891 to 1903. His articles on the Dreyfus affair were collected and published as Dialogues.
- In July 1937 he attended the Second International Writers' Congress, the purpose of which was to discuss the attitude of intellectuals to the war in Spain, held in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid and attended by many writers including André Malraux, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Spender and Pablo Neruda.
- He was a French philosopher and novelist, known as an essayist and cultural critic.
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