Jean Malaurie is a French cultural anthropologist, geographer, physicist, and writer.
Jean Malaurie was born in Mainz, Germany, into a French Catholic family of history scholars of Norman and Scottish descent. In 1943, while studying at the Lyce HenriIV in Paris, he was drafted into the Service du travail obligatoire . Refusing to join, he went into hiding until August 1944.
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